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Normal adults do not have any difficulty in recognizing their homes. But can artificial systems do in the same way as humans? This book collects interdisciplinary evidences and presents an answer from the perspective of computing, namely, the theory of cognitive prism. To recogn…
L'orientamento spaziale è una capacità che può trarre giovamento dall'esperienza e dalla familiarità con l'ambiente. Questo libro intende potenziare il senso dell'orientamento fin dalla prima infanzia, proponendo esercizi spaziali da poter svolgere sia a scuola sia a casa. La pr…
Michael Leyton's arguments about the nature of perception and cognition are fascinating, exciting, and sure to be controversial. In this investigation of the psychological relationship between shape and time, Leyton argues compellingly that shape is used by the mind to recover t…
Geospatial Semantics and the Semantic Web
by Ashish, Naveen, Sheth, Amit P.
fromSemantic Web and Beyond, 12
The availability of geographic and geospatial information and services, especially on the open Web has become abundant in the last several years with the proliferation of online maps, geo-coding services, geospatial Web services and geospatially enabled applications. The need fo…
This work brings together 19 articles from leading scholars who investigate the relationship between spatial cognition and spatial language. It represents the state of the art in terms of language and space research and points to new directions in terms of findings, theory and p…
Language, Cognition and Space brings together nineteen articles from leading scholars who investigate the relationship between spatial cognition and spatial language. This volume represents the state of the art in terms of language and space research and points to new directions…
"Spatial perception and cognition is fundamental to human abilities to navigate through space, identify and locate objects, and track entities in motion. Moreover, research findings in the last couple of decades reveal that many of the mechanisms humans employ to achi9eve this a…