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The Construction Of Cognitive Maps
Juval . Ed(S): Portugali
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Description for The Construction Of Cognitive Maps
Hardback. Aimed at researchers and students of cognitive mapping and environmental cognition, this work focuses on the cognitive processes by which one form of information is being transformed into another, and by which multiple forms of information participate in constructing cognitive maps. Editor(s): Portugali, Juval. Series: Geojournal Library. Num Pages: 366 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMR; PSAN; UYQM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 713.
and processes which are exclusive to humans in their encoding, storing, decoding and retrieving spatial knowledge for various tasks. The authors present and discuss connectionist models of cognitive maps which are based on local representation, versus models which are based on distributed representation, as well as connectionist models concerning language and spatial relations. As is well known, Gibson's (1979) ecological approach suggests a view on cognition which is diametrically different from the classical main stream view: perception (and thus cognition) is direct, immediate and needs no internal information processing, and is thus essentially an external process of interaction between an ... Read more
and processes which are exclusive to humans in their encoding, storing, decoding and retrieving spatial knowledge for various tasks. The authors present and discuss connectionist models of cognitive maps which are based on local representation, versus models which are based on distributed representation, as well as connectionist models concerning language and spatial relations. As is well known, Gibson's (1979) ecological approach suggests a view on cognition which is diametrically different from the classical main stream view: perception (and thus cognition) is direct, immediate and needs no internal information processing, and is thus essentially an external process of interaction between an ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
Series
Geojournal Library
Number of Pages
366
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792339496
SKU
V9780792339496
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99-15
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