Spatial cognition plays an essential role in everyday functioning and provides a foundation for successful performance in scientific and technological fields. Reasoning about space involves processing information about distance, angles, and direction. Starting from infancy, children display sensitivity to these spatial properties, although their initial skills are quite limited. Subsequent deve...

Intelligent MultiMedia (IntelliMedia) focusses on the computer processing and understanding of input from at least speech, text and visual images in terms of semantic representations. We have developed a general suite of tools in the form of a software and hardware platform called CHAMELEON that can be tailored to conducting IntelliMe-dia in various application domains. CHAMELEON has an open di...

Spatial Cognition is concerned with the acquisition, organization, utilization, and revision of knowledge about spatial environments, be it real or abstract, human or machine. Spatial Cognition comprises research in very different scientific fields concerned with cognitive agents in spatial environments, such as robotics, artificial intelligence, architecture, geography, linguistics, cognitive ...

What is the relation between spatial language and spatial cognition? Is the way we talk about space based on our non-linguistic spatial representations? Presently, there are at least two major hypotheses about the nature of this relation. On the one hand, there is a cognitive hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, spatial language is grounded on spatial cognition. Our non-linguistic spatial ...