Spatial Cognition VI. Learning, Reasoning, and Talking about Space

Invited Talks.- Virtual Reality as a Valuable Research Tool for Investigating Different Aspects of Spatial Cognition.- On the “Whats” and “Hows” of “Where”: The Role of Salience in Spatial Descriptions.- Learning about Space.- Spatial Orientation.- Does Body Orientation Matter When Reasoning about Depicted or Described Scenes?.- Spatial Memory and Spatial Orientation.- Spatial Navigation.- Map-Based Spatial Navigation: A Cortical Column Model for Action Planning.- Efficient Wayfinding in Hierarchically Regionalized Spatial Environments.- Analyzing Interactions between Navigation Strategies Using a Computational Model of Action Selection.- A Minimalistic Model of Visually Guided Obstacle Avoidance and Path Selection Behavior.- Spatial Learning.- Route Learning Strategies in a Virtual Cluttered Environment.- Learning with Virtual Verbal Displays: Effects of Interface Fidelity on Cognitive Map Development.- Cognitive Surveying: A Framework for Mobile Data Collection, Analysis, and Visualization of Spatial Knowledge and Navigation Practices.- Maps and Modalities.- What Do Focus Maps Focus On?.- Locating Oneself on a Map in Relation to Person Qualities and Map Characteristics.- Conflicting Cues from Vision and Touch Can Impair Spatial Task Performance: Speculations on the Role of Spatial Ability in Reconciling Frames of Reference.- Spatial Communication.- Epistemic Actions in Science Education.- An Influence Model for Reference Object Selection in Spatially Locative Phrases.- Spatial Language.- Tiered Models of Spatial Language Interpretation.- Perspective Use and Perspective Shift in Spatial Dialogue.- Natural Language Meets Spatial Calculi.- Automatic Classification of Containment and Support Spatial Relations in English and Dutch.- Similarity and Abstraction.- Integral vs. Separable Attributes in Spatial Similarity Assessments.- Spatial Abstraction: Aspectualization, Coarsening, and Conceptual Classification.- Concepts and Reference Frames.- Representing Concepts in Time.- The Network of Reference Frames Theory: A Synthesis of Graphs and Cognitive Maps.- Spatially Constrained Grammars for Mobile Intention Recognition.- Modeling Cross-Cultural Performance on the Visual Oddity Task.- Spatial Modeling and Spatial Reasoning.- Modelling Scenes Using the Activity within Them.- Pareto-Optimality of Cognitively Preferred Polygonal Hulls for Dot Patterns.- Qualitative Reasoning about Convex Relations.