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Exploring the Structure of Spatial Representations.

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Exploring the Structure of Spatial Representations.
المؤلفون: Tamas Madl, Stan Franklin, Ke Chen, Robert Trappl, Daniela Montaldi
المصدر: PLoS ONE, Vol 11, Iss 6, p e0157343 (2016)
بيانات النشر: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016.
سنة النشر: 2016
المجموعة: LCC:Medicine
LCC:Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Medicine, Science
الوصف: It has been suggested that the map-like representations that support human spatial memory are fragmented into sub-maps with local reference frames, rather than being unitary and global. However, the principles underlying the structure of these 'cognitive maps' are not well understood. We propose that the structure of the representations of navigation space arises from clustering within individual psychological spaces, i.e. from a process that groups together objects that are close in these spaces. Building on the ideas of representational geometry and similarity-based representations in cognitive science, we formulate methods for learning dissimilarity functions (metrics) characterizing participants' psychological spaces. We show that these learned metrics, together with a probabilistic model of clustering based on the Bayesian cognition paradigm, allow prediction of participants' cognitive map structures in advance. Apart from insights into spatial representation learning in human cognition, these methods could facilitate novel computational tools capable of using human-like spatial concepts. We also compare several features influencing spatial memory structure, including spatial distance, visual similarity and functional similarity, and report strong correlations between these dimensions and the grouping probability in participants' spatial representations, providing further support for clustering in spatial memory.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1932-6203
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157343
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/8c413db5e4ec483baf1ba24185ac61ed
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.8c413db5e4ec483baf1ba24185ac61ed
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:19326203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0157343