Spatial Cognition XI : 11th International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2018, Tübingen, Germany, September 5-8, 2018, Proceedings

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2018, held in Tübingen, Germany, in September 2018. The 22 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 44 submissions. They focus on the following topics: navigating in space; talking about space; agents, actions, and space; and individuals in space. Front Matter ....Pages I-XI Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Spatial Features of Terrain Reflected in Pigeon Flights (Margarita Zaleshina, Alexander Zaleshin)....Pages 3-14 Humans Construct Survey Estimates on the Fly from a Compartmentalised Representation of the Navigated Environment (Tobias Meilinger, Agnes Henson, Jonathan Rebane, Heinrich H. Bülthoff, Hanspeter A. Mallot)....Pages 15-26 Spatial Survey Estimation Is Incremental and Relies on Directed Memory Structures (Tobias Meilinger, Marianne Strickrodt, Heinrich H. Bülthoff)....Pages 27-42 Pointing Errors in Non-metric Virtual Environments (Alexander Muryy, Andrew Glennerster)....Pages 43-57 The Effect of Locomotion Modes on Spatial Memory and Learning in Large Immersive Virtual Environments: A Comparison of Walking with Gain to Continuous Motion Control (Xianshi Xie, Richard A. Paris, Timothy P. McNamara, Bobby Bodenheimer)....Pages 58-73 Front Matter ....Pages 75-75 A Graph Representation for Verbal Indoor Route Descriptions (Stephan Winter, Ehsan Hamzei, Nico Van de Weghe, Kristien Ooms)....Pages 77-91 Object Orientation in Dialogue: A Case Study of Spatial Inference Processes (Gesa Schole, Thora Tenbrink, Elena Andonova, Kenny Coventry)....Pages 92-106 Spatial Distribution of Local Landmarks in Route-Based Sketch Maps (Vanessa Joy A. Anacta, Rui Li, Heinrich Löwen, Marcelo De Lima Galvao, Angela Schwering)....Pages 107-118 The Influence of Animacy and Spatial Relation Complexity on the Choice of Frame of Reference in German (Katarzyna Stoltmann, Susanne Fuchs, Manfred Krifka)....Pages 119-133 Spatial Discourse Production: Applying Denis’s Framework to Non-urban Context (Ekaterina Egorova)....Pages 134-148 Front Matter ....Pages 149-149 Differences and Commonalities in Self-localization Accuracy of Humans and Robots in a Complex Building (Rul von Stülpnagel, Vincent Langenfeld, Christoph Hölscher)....Pages 151-166 A Comparison of Mental and Physical Rotation Using Gaze-Based Measures (Stefanie Wetzel, Sven Bertel)....Pages 167-179 Deictic Adaptation in a Virtual Environment (Nikhil Krishnaswamy, James Pustejovsky)....Pages 180-196 Analyzing Strong Spatial Cognition: A Modeling Approach (Jasper van de Ven, Munehiro Fukuda, Holger Schultheis, Christian Freksa, Thomas Barkowsky)....Pages 197-208 Front Matter ....Pages 209-209 Do Spatial Abilities Have an Impact on Route Learning in Hypertexts? (Markus Kattenbeck, Thomas Jänich, Ludwig Kreuzpointner)....Pages 211-227 A Dissociation Between Two Classes of Spatial Abilities in Elementary School Children (Cathleen Heil)....Pages 228-243 State Anxiety Influences Sex Differences in Spatial Learning (Ian T. Ruginski, Jeanine K. Stefanucci, Sarah H. Creem-Regehr)....Pages 244-257 Front Matter ....Pages 259-259 Electrocortical Evidence for Long-Term Incidental Spatial Learning Through Modified Navigation Instructions (Anna Wunderlich, Klaus Gramann)....Pages 261-278 Distinguishing Sketch Map Types: A Flexible Feature-Based Classification (Jakub Krukar, Stefan Münzer, Lucas Lörch, Vanessa Joy Anacta, Stefan Fuest, Angela Schwering)....Pages 279-292 The Invisible Maze Task (IMT): Interactive Exploration of Sparse Virtual Environments to Investigate Action-Driven Formation of Spatial Representations (Lukas Gehrke, John R. Iversen, Scott Makeig, Klaus Gramann)....Pages 293-310 Memory for Salient Landmarks: Empirical Findings and a Cognitive Model (Rebecca Albrecht, Rul von Stuelpnagel)....Pages 311-325 A System of Automatic Generation of Landmark-Based Pedestrian Navigation Instructions and Its Effectiveness for Wayfinding (Jue Wang, Toru Ishikawa)....Pages 326-340 Back Matter ....Pages 341-341 This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2018, held in Tubingen, Germany, in September 2018. The 22 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 44 submissions. They focus on the following topics: navigating in space;