Recognizing variable spatial environments: the theory of cognitive prism

xv Acknowledgements xvii 1 An introduction 1 1.1 The aim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2 How can we recognize variable spatial environments? . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3 Interdisciplinary perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.3.1 Neurology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.3.2 Cognitive psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.3.3 Psycho-linguistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.3.4 Formal spatial ontologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.3.5 Computational modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.4 The assumption and the criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.5 Results and contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.6 The organization of this thesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2 The state of the art 15 2.1 Psychological spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2.2 Object recognition (Figural spatial cognition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.2.1 Object recognition at the preferred category . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.2.2 Gestalt grouping laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.2.3 View-dependent vs. view-independent models . . . . . . . . . 20 2.3 Cognitive maps, frames, and other schemata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 2.3.1 The existence of the represented world of MSR . . . . . . . . . 25 2.3.2 The partial hierarchical structure of the MSR . . . . . . . . . 25 2.3.3 Cognitive reference points in the MSR . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27