Mental Representation and Processing of Geographic Knowledge

Thomas Barkowsky

• 11 december 2002
• 9783540002161

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In cognitive science, mental representations of spatial knowledge are often referred to as cognitive maps, though this can be inadequate and a more spatial concept is required. This book addresses mental processing of knowledge through an experimental computational modelling approach.

In cognitive science, mental representations of spatial knowledge are metaphorically referred to as cognitive maps. However, investigations in cognitive psychology reveal that the cognitive map metaphor is inadequate and that more suitable conceptions of human spatial knowledge processing are needed.
This book addresses mental processing of knowledge about geographic space from an AI point of view by presenting an experimental computational modeling approach. Results about human memory and visual mental imagery from cognitive psychology are combined with AI techniques of spatial and diagrammatic knowledge processing. The author develops the diagrammatic reasoning architecture MIRAGE as a comprehensive conception of human geographic knowledge processing.