Temporal and spatial distance in situation models

Temporal and spatial distance in situation models.

In two experiments, we investigated how readers use information about temporal and spatial distance to focus attention on the more important parts of the situation model that they create during narrative comprehension. Effects of spatial distance were measured by testing the accessibility in memory of objects and rooms located at differing distances from the protagonist's current location. Befo...

Distance Effects in Surface Structures and Situation Models

The metrics of spatial situation models.

The authors investigated the metrics of spatial distance represented in situation models of narratives. In 3 experiments, a spatial gradient of accessibility in situation models was observed: The accessibility of objects contained in the situation model decreased with increasing spatial distance between the object and the reader's focus of attention. The first 2 experiments demonstrated that th...

Spatial and Temporal Models in Contextual Classification

Different kinds of spatial and temporal models and their use for contextual classification of satellite images are discussed. Models describing the ground cover and its changes over time and models of the spectral signatures in multitemporal images are studied. Isotropic autocorrelation models as well as mosaic models are used for quantification of the variation in space and time. For the diffe...

Privacy Spatial and Temporal Distances in Nomadic Settelments

Human always in interaction with their social environment, have consider some degree of privacy with different purposes, for themselves, the people around them and carry out their activities. Creating privacy depends on two elements; subjective meanings that ruling the creation of privacy, and the second sentence are person available facilities. Privacy is not seen, heard, smelled and availabil...