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Space and spatial cognition : a multidisciplinary perspective / Michel Denis.

"All living creatures inscribe their activity in space. Human beings acquire knowledge of this space by traversing it, listening to verbal descriptions, and looking at maps, atlases, and digital media. We memorize routes, compare distances mentally, and retrieve our starting place after a long...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Denis, Michel, 1943- (Author)
Other title:Petit traité de l'espace. English
Format: eBook
Language:English
French
Published: New York : Routledge, 2018.
Subjects:
Space perception.
Visual perception.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Space as object of knowledge and object of practice
  • Philosophical approaches to space
  • Geographic space
  • Space-related practices
  • Spatial behavior and spatial representations
  • Classifications
  • Frames of reference and cognitive maps
  • Measurements
  • Brain and sensorimotor systems: functions and dysfunctions
  • The spatial brain
  • Weaknesses
  • Spatial challenges
  • Space and language
  • Spatial terminology
  • Spatial descriptions
  • Routes and route directions
  • Computation and technologies
  • Space and computer sciences
  • Assistance
  • Virtual spaces
  • Epilogue. Spatial thinking
  • References
  • Index of names
  • Index of terms.

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