The Construction of Cognitive Maps

by Juval Portugali

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048146771
• ISBN13: 9789048146772
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"