Spatial cognition VII : International Conference Spatial Cognition 2010, Mt. Hood/Portland, OR, USA, August 15-19, 2010 : proceedings

This is the seventh volume of a series of books on fundamental research in spatial cognition. As with past volumes, the research presented here spans a broad range of research traditions, for spatial cognition concerns not just the basic spatial behavior of biological and artificial agents, but also the reasoning processes that allow spatial planning across broad spatial and temporal scales. Spatial information is critical for coordinated action and thus agents interacting with objects and moving among objects must be able to perceive spatial relations, learn about these relations, and act on them, or store the information for later use, either by themselves or communicated to others. Research on this problem has included both psychology, which works to understand how humans and other mobile organisms solve these problems, and computer science, which considers the nature of the information available in the world and a formal consideration of how these problems might be solved. Research on human spatial cognition also involves the application of representations and processes that may have evolved to handle object and location information to reasoning about higher-order problems, such as displaying non-spatial information in diagrams. Thus, work in s- tial cognition extends beyond psychology and computer science into many disciplines including geography and education. The Spatial Cognition conference offers one of the few forums for consideration of the issues spanning this broad academic range. Front Matter....Pages - Individual Differences in Spatial Language and Way-Finding: The Role of Cognition, Emotion and Motivation....Pages 1-3 CogSketch: Sketch Understanding for Cognitive Science Research and for Education....Pages 4-4 The Refraction of Space: A Radical Reversal of Direction....Pages 5-6 Investigating the Role of Goals and Environmental Structure on Memory for Distance and Time in Virtual Environments....Pages 7-18 The Spatial and Temporal Underpinnings of Social Distance....Pages 19-31 The Role of Slope in Human Reorientation....Pages 32-40 Influence of Geometry and Objects on Local Route Choices during Wayfinding....Pages 41-53 Testing Landmark Identification Theories in Virtual Environments....Pages 54-69 Men to the East and Women to the Right: Wayfinding with Verbal Route Instructions....Pages 70-84 Do All Science Disciplines Rely on Spatial Abilities? Preliminary Evidence from Self-report Questionnaires....Pages 85-94 Gestures in Geology: The Roles of Spatial Skills, Expertise, and Communicative Context....Pages 95-111 Using Analogical Mapping to Assess the Affordances of Scale Models Used in Earth and Environmental Science Education....Pages 112-124 Aligning Spatial Perspective in Route Descriptions....Pages 125-138 The Role of Grammatical Aspect in the Dynamics of Spatial Descriptions....Pages 139-151 Implicit Spatial Length Modulates Time Estimates, But Not Vice Versa....Pages 152-162 Bio-inspired Architecture for Active Sensorimotor Localization....Pages 163-178 Color Binding in Visuo-Spatial Working Memory....Pages 179-190 Human EEG Correlates of Spatial Navigation within Egocentric and Allocentric Reference Frames....Pages 191-206 Putting Egocentric and Allocentric into Perspective....Pages 207-221 Reference Frames Influence Spatial Memory Development within and Across Sensory Modalities....Pages 222-233 Do We Need to Walk for Effective Virtual Reality Navigation? Physical Rotations Alone May Suffice....Pages 234-247 Eye Movements Reflect Reasoning with Mental Images but Not with Mental Models in Orientation Knowledge Tasks....Pages 248-261 An Eye-Tracking Study of Integrative Spatial Cognition over Diagrammatic Representations....Pages 262-278 Enriching Spatial Knowledge through a Multiattribute Locational System....Pages 279-288 Interactive Assistance for Tour Planning....Pages 289-302 Verbally Annotated Tactile Maps – Challenges and Approaches....Pages 303-318 Generating Adaptive Route Instructions Using Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning....Pages 319-334 Can Mirror-Reading Reverse the Flow of Time?....Pages 335-345 Back Matter....Pages - This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Spatial Cognition 2010, held in Mt. Hood/Portland, OR, USA, in August 2010. The 25 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on distance and time, navigation, science education and spatial skill, language, computational modelling, reference frames, visual attention in spatial reasoning, maps and assistance, as well as language, neuroscience and education