From Geometry to Behavior: An Introduction to Spatial Cognition

Mallot, Hanspeter A.

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-01-23
  • 售價: $2,360
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$2,242
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 328
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0262547112
  • ISBN-13: 9780262547116
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商品描述

An overview of the mechanisms and evolution of spatial cognition, integrating evidence from psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, and computational geometry.

Understanding how we deal with space requires input from many fields, including ethology, neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, geography, and spatial information theory. In From Geometry to Behavior, cognitive neuroscientist Hanspeter A. Mallot provides an overview of the basic mechanisms of spatial behavior in animals and humans, showing how they combine to support higher-level performance. Mallot explores the biological mechanisms of dealing with space, from the perception of visual space to the constructions of large space representations: that is, the cognitive map. The volume is also relevant to the epistemology of spatial knowledge in the philosophy of mind.

Mallot aims to establish spatial cognition as a scientific field in its own right. His general approach is psychophysical, in that it focuses on quantitative descriptions of behavioral performance and their real-world determinants, thus connecting to the work of theorists in computational neuroscience, robotics, and computational geometry. After an overview of scientific thinking about space, Mallot covers spatial behavior and its underlying mechanisms in the order of increasing memory involvement. He describes the cognitive processes that underlie advanced spatial behaviors such as directed search, wayfinding, spatial planning, spatial reasoning, object building and manipulation, and communication about space. These mechanisms are part of the larger cognitive apparatus that also serves visual and object cognition; understanding events, actions, and causality; and social cognition, which includes language. Of all of these cognitive domains, spatial cognition most likely occurred first in the course of evolution and is the most widespread throughout the animal kingdom.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

空間認知機制和演化的概述,整合了心理學、神經科學、認知科學和計算幾何學的證據。了解我們如何處理空間需要來自多個領域的輸入,包括行為學、神經科學、心理學、認知科學、語言學、地理學和空間信息理論。在《從幾何到行為》中,認知神經科學家Hanspeter A. Mallot概述了動物和人類空間行為的基本機制,並展示了它們如何結合以支持更高水平的表現。Mallot探索了處理空間的生物機制,從對視覺空間的感知到大型空間表示的構建:即認知地圖。該卷還與心靈哲學中的空間知識的認識論相關。Mallot旨在將空間認知建立為一個獨立的科學領域。他的一般方法是心理物理學,即專注於行為表現的定量描述及其現實世界的決定因素,從而與計算神經科學、機器人技術和計算幾何學理論家的工作相連接。在對空間思維的概述之後,Mallot按照記憶參與程度的順序介紹了空間行為及其潛在機制。他描述了支持高級空間行為的認知過程,例如定向搜索、尋路、空間規劃、空間推理、物體建構和操作以及關於空間的交流。這些機制是更大的認知裝置的一部分,該裝置還用於視覺和物體認知;理解事件、行動和因果關係;以及社會認知,包括語言。在所有這些認知領域中,空間認知最有可能在演化過程中首先出現,並且在動物界中最為普遍。

作者簡介

Hanspeter A. Mallot is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Tübingen. He is the author of Computational Vision: Information Processing in Perception and Visual Behavior (MIT Press).

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Hanspeter A. Mallot是圖賓根大學認知神經科學教授。他是《Computational Vision: Information Processing in Perception and Visual Behavior》(MIT Press)一書的作者。