Grounded spatial belief revision

Grounded Spatial Belief Revision

Beliefs frequently undergo revisions, especially when new pieces of information are true but inconsistent with current beliefs. In previous studies, we showed that linguistic asymmetries provided by relational statements, play a crucial role in spatial belief revision. Located objects (LO) are preferably revised compared to reference objects (RO), known as the LO-principle. Here we establish a ...

Spatial belief revision

Minimality Criteria in Spatial Belief Revision

Agents typically revise their beliefs when confronted with evidence that contradicts those beliefs, selecting from a number of possible revisions sufficient to reestablish consistency. In cases where an individual’s beliefs concern spatial relations, belief revision has been fruitfully treated as a decision about which features of an initially constructed spatial mental model to modify. A norma...

Cognitive processes underlying spatial belief revision

New information sometimes contradicts what is believed about certain states of the world. To integrate contradicting information, reasoners have to revise existing beliefs. In the course of belief revision they need to decide which beliefs to retain and which ones to retract in order to regain consistency within current belief states. What guides belief revision has been studied in the non-spat...

Belief Revision

Philippa, a Greek nineteen year old student at Patras University, has just discovered that Nikos and Angela are not her true parents; she was adopted when she was six months old from an orphanage in Sao Paulo. The news really shook Philippa. Much of what she used to believe all her life about herself and her family was wrong. After recovering from the initial shock she started putting her thoug...