Spatial Cognition

1. Introduction: Spatial Cognition - Foundations and Applications (by O Nuallain, Sean); 2. Part I: Epistemological Issues; 3. Men and Women, Maps and Minds: Cognitive bases of sex-related differences in reading and interpreting maps (by Allen, Gary L.); 4. A Theoretical Framework for the Study of Spatial Cognition (by Tirassa, Maurizio); 5. Describers and Explorers: A method for investigating cognitive maps (by Carassa, Antonella); 6. The Functional Separability of Self-Reference and Object-to-Object Systems in Spatial Memory (by Sholl, M. Jeanne); 7. In Search for an Overall Organizing Principle in Spatial Mental Models: A question of inference (by Hornig, Robin); 8. Describing the Topology of Spherical Regions using the 'RCC' Formalism (by Gotts, Nicholas Mark); 9. Cognitive Mapping in Rats and Humans: The tent-maze, a place learning task in visually disconnected environments (by Grobety, Marie-Claude); 10. Spatial Cognition Without Spatial Concepts (by Smith, Arnold); 11. Space Under Stress: Spatial understanding and new media technologies (by Speed, Chris); 12. Part II: Software Applications: Multimedia, GIS, diagrammatic reasoning and beyond; 13. CHAMELEON meets spatial cognition (by Mc Kevitt, Paul); 14. SONAS: Multimodal, Multi-User Interaction with a Modelled Environment (by O Nuallain, Sean); 15. Designing Real-Time Software Advisors for 3D Spatial Operations (by Eisenberg, Mike); 16. Using Spatial Semantics to Discover and Verify Diagrammatic Demonstrations of Geometric Propositions (by Lindsay, Robert K.); 17. Formal Specifications of Image Schemata for Interoperability in Geographic Information Systems (by Frank, Andrew U.); 18. Using a Spatial Display to Represent the Temporal Structure of Multimedia Documents (by Betrancourt, Mireille); 19. Part III: Language and Space; 20. A Computational Multi-layered Model for the Interpretation of Locative Expressions (by Anibaldi, Luca); 21. The Composition of Conceptual Structure for Spatial Motion Imperatives (by Gurney, John); 22. Modelling Spatial Inferences in Text Understanding (by Schmid, Ute); 23. Linguistic and Graphical Representations and the Characterisation of Individual Differences (by Stenning, Keith); 24. Part IV: Memory, Consciousness and Space; 25. Given-New Versus New-Given?: An analysis of reading times for spatial descriptions (by Baguley, Thom S.); 26. A Connectionist Model of the Processes Involved in Generating and Exploring Visual Mental Images (by Bollaert, Mathias); 27. Working Memory and Mental Synthesis: A dual-task approach (by Pearson, David G.); 28. Subject Index