This short paper focuses on the application of concepts and methods of Spatial Cognition to building analysis. We investigate the close relationship between spatial knowledge and built environment by combining theoretical analysis with user comments and behavioral data. Based on an empirical study in a complex multi-level-building two main aspect of navigational space are considered: architectu...

We present the results of an ongoing research in the area of symbol grounding. We develop a biologically inspired model for grounding the spatial terms that employs separate visual what and where subsystems that are integrated with the symbolic linguistic subsystem in the simplified neural model. The model grounds color, shape and spatial relations of two objects in 2D space. The images with tw...

Twenty outpatients who fulfilled the criteria for a diagnosis of schizophrenia and 28 control participants were invited to learn a route through a complex outdoor environment. They were then tested in tasks intended to explore various aspects of their memorized representation of the navigational episode. Compared to controls, the patients showed significant impairment in both the verbal product...

Androgens have been shown to affect cognitive aspects of spatial memory. Testosterone which is the most important androgen, plays a role in the organization of behavior during development. Also, it has been shown that androgens cause sex related differences in learning and memory especially during neonatal period. In the current study, we assessed the effects of castration and testosterone ena...

Recent research has highlighted the relationships between impairments in cognitive functioning and poorer functional outcomes among people with schizophrenia (PWS). The purpose of this study was to replicate and extend this work by testing the relationships between cognition and functional outcome among deaf adults with schizophrenia. Empirical findings from deafness-oriented research reveals e...

This paper reports on an experimental study into distance estimation in a simple virtual environment. The results have been then compared with an experimental study of spatial cognition in the real world. It is concluded that the minimal virtual environment resembles a restricted Euclidean environment (or Euclidean environments viewed in a restricted or blinkered manner). 1. Spatial cognition a...

Central cholinergic hypofunction causes the disruption of spatial cognition, while cholinomimetics improve this disruption in rats. Scopolamine (0.5 mg/kg, i.p.) has also been reported to disrupt radial maze performance in rats. Nebracetam (WEB 1881 FU), a new nootropic candidate, was able to correct this scopolamine-induced disruption of spatial cognition at the dose of 10 mg/kg, p.o. Furtherm...

Prior research has suggested that emotion and working memory domains are integrated, such that positive affect enhances verbal working memory, whereas negative affect enhances spatial working memory (Gray, 2004; Storbeck, 2012). Simon (1967) postulated that one feature of emotion and cognition integration would be reciprocal connectedness (i.e., emotion influences cognition and cognition influe...