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Spatial Behavior

Author : Reginald G. Golledge
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572300507
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Spatial Behavior by : Reginald G. Golledge

Download or read book Spatial Behavior written by Reginald G. Golledge and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do human beings negotiate the spaces in which they live, work, and play? How are firms and institutions, and their spatial behaviors, being affected by processes of economic and societal change? What decisions do they make about their natural and built environment, and how are these decisions acted out? Updating and expanding concepts of decision making and choice behavior on different geographic scales, this major revision of the authors' acclaimed Analytical Behavioral Geography presents theoretical foundations, extensive case studies, and empirical evidence of human behavior in a comprehensive range of physical, social, and economic settings. Generously illustrated with maps, diagrams, and tables, the volume also covers issues of gender, discusses traditionally excluded groups such as the physically and mentally challenged, and addresses the pressing needs of our growing elderly population.

Image and Environment

Author : Roger M. Downs
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0202366723
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Image and Environment by : Roger M. Downs

Download or read book Image and Environment written by Roger M. Downs and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive mapping is a construct that encompasses those processes that enable people to acquire, code, store, recall, and manipulate information about the nature of their spatial environment. It refers to the attributes and relative locations of people and objects in the environment, and is an essential component in the adaptive process of spatial decision-making--such as finding a safe and quick route to from work, locating potential sites for a new house or business, and deciding where to travel on a vacation trip. Cognitive processes are not constant, but undergo change with age or development and use or learning. Image and Environment, now in paperback, is a pioneer study. It brings a new academic discipline to a wide audience. The volume is divided into six sections, which represent a comprehensive breakdown of cognitive mapping studies: "Theory"; "Cognitive Representations"; "Spatial Preferences"; "The Development of Spatial Cognition"; "Geographical and Spatial Orientation"; and "Cognitive Distance." Contributors include Edward Tolman, James Blaut, Stephen Kaplan, Terence Lee, Donald Appleyard, Peter Orleans, Thomas Saarinen, Kevin Cox, Georgia Zannaras, Peter Gould, Roger Hart, Gary Moore, Donald Griffin, Kevin Lynch, Ulf Lundberg, Ronald Lowrey, and Ronald Briggs. Roger M. Downs is head of the Department of Geography at Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Bristol in 1970 and has also taught geography and environmental engineering at Johns Hopkins University. David Stea is professor of geography and planning at Southwest Texas State University and Enrique A. Aragon Distinguished Professor at Universidad Nacional AutÂ¾noma de MÃxico. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University in 1964 and has also taught at the U.S. International University, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, UCLA, Clark University, Brown University, and Stanford University. Kenneth E. Boulding (1910-1993) was an internationally known economist. He was the author of several works, including Beasts, Ballads, and Bouldingisms, and the editor of Peace and the War Industry, both available from Transaction.

Gravity Models of Spatial Interaction Behavior

Author : Ashish Sen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642798802
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (427 download)

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Book Synopsis Gravity Models of Spatial Interaction Behavior by : Ashish Sen

Download or read book Gravity Models of Spatial Interaction Behavior written by Ashish Sen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gravity models describe, and hence help predict, spatial flows of commuters, air-travelers, migrants, commodities and even messages. They are one of the oldest and most widely used of all social science models. This book presents an up-to-date, consistent and unified approach to the theory, methods and application of the gravity model - which spans from the axiomatic foundations of such models all the way to practical hints for their use. "I have found no better general method for use in applied research dealing with spatial interaction... It is against this background that the present book by Sen and Smith is most welcomed." Walter Isard

Spatial Behavior in Haredi Jewish Communities in Great Britain

Author : Shlomit Flint Ashery
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030258580
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Spatial Behavior in Haredi Jewish Communities in Great Britain by : Shlomit Flint Ashery

Download or read book Spatial Behavior in Haredi Jewish Communities in Great Britain written by Shlomit Flint Ashery and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the strict orthodox Jewish (Haredi) community, which comprises many sects whose communal identity plays a central role in everyday life and spatial organization. The research reveals and analyses powerful mechanisms of residential segregation acting at the apartment-, building- and near-neighbourhood levels. Identifying the main engines of spontaneous and organised neighbourhood change and evaluating the difficulties of liberalism dealing with non-autonomous individuals in the housing market sheds light on similar processes occurring in other city centres with diverse population groups. Highlighting the impact of various organisational levels on the spatial structure of the urban enclave, the book focuses on the internal dynamics of ethno-religious enclaves that emerge from three levels of action: (1) individuals' relationships with their own and other groups; (2) the community leadership's powers within the group and in respect of other groups; and (3) government directives and tools (e.g planning). The study examines how different levels of communal organisation are reflected in the residential patterns of four British communities: the Litvish communities of Golders Green and Gateshead, and the Hassidic communities of Stamford Hill and Canvey Island.

Consumer Spatial Behaviour

Author : Robert William Bacon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Consumer Spatial Behaviour written by Robert William Bacon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theoretical book on the locational aspects of consumer behaviour.

Wayfinding Behavior

Author : Reginald G. Golledge
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801859939
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (599 download)

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Book Synopsis Wayfinding Behavior by : Reginald G. Golledge

Download or read book Wayfinding Behavior written by Reginald G. Golledge and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The metaphor of a "cognitive map" has attracted interest since the 1940s. Researchers from many fields have explored how humans process and use spatial information, why they make errors or not. This text brings together contributors from diverse fields to explore the

Human Spatial Behavior

Author : John A. Jakle
Publisher : Waveland PressInc
ISBN 13 : 9780881331417
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (314 download)

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Book Synopsis Human Spatial Behavior by : John A. Jakle

Download or read book Human Spatial Behavior written by John A. Jakle and published by Waveland PressInc. This book was released on 1985 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Map Reader

Author : Martin Dodge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470980079
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Map Reader written by Martin Dodge and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE CANTEMIR PRIZE 2012 awarded by the Berendel Foundation The Map Reader brings together, for the first time, classic and hard-to-find articles on mapping. This book provides a wide-ranging and coherent edited compendium of key scholarly writing about the changing nature of cartography over the last half century. The editorial selection of fifty-four theoretical and thought provoking texts demonstrates how cartography works as a powerful representational form and explores how different mapping practices have been conceptualised in particular scholarly contexts. Themes covered include paradigms, politics, people, aesthetics and technology. Original interpretative essays set the literature into intellectual context within these themes. Excerpts are drawn from leading scholars and researchers in a range of cognate fields including: Cartography, Geography, Anthropology, Architecture, Engineering, Computer Science and Graphic Design. The Map Reader provides a new unique single source reference to the essential literature in the cartographic field: more than fifty specially edited excerpts from key, classic articles and monographs critical introductions by experienced experts in the field focused coverage of key mapping practices, techniques and ideas a valuable resource suited to a broad spectrum of researchers and students working in cartography and GIScience, geography, the social sciences, media studies, and visual arts full page colour illustrations of significant maps as provocative visual ‘think-pieces’ fully indexed, clearly structured and accessible ways into a fast changing field of cartographic research

Intelligent Virtual Agents

Author : Catherine Pelachaud
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540749969
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Intelligent Virtual Agents written by Catherine Pelachaud and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2007, held in Paris, France, September 2007. The 19 revised full papers and 12 revised short papers presented together with five invited talks and the abstracts of 32 poster papers are organized in topical sections on rendering and analysis, culture and identity, behavior models, feedback models, dialogues, applications, evaluation, gaze models and emotions.

The Impact of Scale on Children’s Spatial Thought

Author : Cathleen Heil
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3658326484
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (583 download)

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Book Synopsis The Impact of Scale on Children’s Spatial Thought by : Cathleen Heil

Download or read book The Impact of Scale on Children’s Spatial Thought written by Cathleen Heil and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Cathleen Heil addresses the question of how to conceptually understand children’s spatial thought in the context of geometry education. She proposes that in order to help children develop their abilities to successfully grasp and manipulate the spatial relations they experience in their everyday lives, spatial thought should not only be addressed in written or tabletop settings at school. Instead, geometry education should also focus on settings involving real space, such as during reasoning with maps. In a first part of this book, she theoretically addresses the construct of spatial thought at different scales of space from a cognitive psychological point of view and shows that maps can be rich sources for spatial thinking. In a second part, she proposes how to measure children’s spatial thought in a paper-and-pencil setting and map-based setting in real space. In a third, empirical part, she examines the relations between children’s spatial thought in those two settings both at a manifest and latent level.

Methods of Behavior Analysis in Neuroscience

Author : Jerry J. Buccafusco
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420041819
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Methods of Behavior Analysis in Neuroscience by : Jerry J. Buccafusco

Download or read book Methods of Behavior Analysis in Neuroscience written by Jerry J. Buccafusco and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-08-29 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the most well-studied behavioral analyses of animal subjects to promote a better understanding of the effects of disease and the effects of new therapeutic treatments on human cognition, Methods of Behavior Analysis in Neuroscience provides a reference manual for molecular and cellular research scientists in both academia and the pharmaceutic

Social-Behavioral Modeling for Complex Systems

Author : Paul K. Davis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119484960
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)

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Book Synopsis Social-Behavioral Modeling for Complex Systems by : Paul K. Davis

Download or read book Social-Behavioral Modeling for Complex Systems written by Paul K. Davis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes frontiers in social-behavioral modeling for contexts as diverse as national security, health, and on-line social gaming. Recent scientific and technological advances have created exciting opportunities for such improvements. However, the book also identifies crucial scientific, ethical, and cultural challenges to be met if social-behavioral modeling is to achieve its potential. Doing so will require new methods, data sources, and technology. The volume discusses these, including those needed to achieve and maintain high standards of ethics and privacy. The result should be a new generation of modeling that will advance science and, separately, aid decision-making on major social and security-related subjects despite the myriad uncertainties and complexities of social phenomena. Intended to be relatively comprehensive in scope, the volume balances theory-driven, data-driven, and hybrid approaches. The latter may be rapidly iterative, as when artificial-intelligence methods are coupled with theory-driven insights to build models that are sound, comprehensible and usable in new situations. With the intent of being a milestone document that sketches a research agenda for the next decade, the volume draws on the wisdom, ideas and suggestions of many noted researchers who draw in turn from anthropology, communications, complexity science, computer science, defense planning, economics, engineering, health systems, medicine, neuroscience, physics, political science, psychology, public policy and sociology. In brief, the volume discusses: Cutting-edge challenges and opportunities in modeling for social and behavioral science Special requirements for achieving high standards of privacy and ethics New approaches for developing theory while exploiting both empirical and computational data Issues of reproducibility, communication, explanation, and validation Special requirements for models intended to inform decision making about complex social systems

The Neurobiology of Spatial Behaviour

Author : Kathryn J. Jeffery
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198515243
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis The Neurobiology of Spatial Behaviour by : Kathryn J. Jeffery

Download or read book The Neurobiology of Spatial Behaviour written by Kathryn J. Jeffery and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between cellular processes and animal behavior. It does this by focusing on the domain of navigation, bringing together scientists from either side of the brain-behavior divide in an attempt to explain the linkage between spatial behavior and the underlying activity of neurons. The Neurobiology of Spatial Behaviour is organized into two sections. Section one deals with the so-called "higher" levels of description - studies of spatial behavior and the brain areas that might underlie such behavior. The section begins with insects, remarkably sophisticated navigators, and ends with humans, examining along the way issues such as whether animal brains contain maps and whether spatial and non-spatial information interact, and if so, how? Section two delves further into the brain and focuses on the mammalian representations of space and the role of place cells. These issues have far wider ramifications that simply helping us to understand the process of navigation. This system might provide a model for how other forms of knowledge, beliefs and intentions are encoded in neurons. As such, the book will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience, including ethologists, psychologists, behavioral neuroscientists, computational modelers, physiological neuroscientists and molecular biologists.

Cognitive Processes and Spatial Orientation in Animal and Man

Author : P. Ellen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400935315
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Cognitive Processes and Spatial Orientation in Animal and Man by : P. Ellen

Download or read book Cognitive Processes and Spatial Orientation in Animal and Man written by P. Ellen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes represent the proceedings of NATO Advanced Study Institute on the topic of "Cognitive Processes and Spatial Orientation in Animal and Man" held at La-Baume-les-Aix, Aix-en-Provence, France, in June-July 1985. The motivation underlying this Institute stemmed from the recent advances and interest in the problems of spatial behavior. In Psychology, traditional S-R concepts were found to be unsatisfactorY for fully accounting for the complexity of spatial behavior. Coupled with the decline in such an approach, has been a resurgence of interest in cognitive types of concepts. In Ethology, investigators have begun to use more sophisticated methods for the study of homing and navigational behaviors. In the general area of Neuroscience, marked advances have been achieved in the understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying spatial behaviors. And finally, there has been a burgeoning interest and body of knowledge concerning the development of spatial behavior in humans. All of these factors combined to suggest the necessity of bringing together scientists working in these areas with the intent that such a meeting might lead to a cross-fertilization of the various areas. Possibly by providing a context in which members of the various disciplines could interact, it was felt that we might increase the likelihood of identifying those similarities and differences in the concepts and methods common to all groups. Such an identification could provide the basis for a subsequent interdisciplinary research effort.

Cognitive Processes and Spatial Orientation in Animal and Man

Author : Paul Ellen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789024734474
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis Cognitive Processes and Spatial Orientation in Animal and Man by : Paul Ellen

Download or read book Cognitive Processes and Spatial Orientation in Animal and Man written by Paul Ellen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1987-02-28 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, La-Baume-les-Aix (Aix-en-Provence), France, June 27-July 7, 1985

Human Spatial Cognition and Experience

Author : Toru Ishikawa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351251279
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Human Spatial Cognition and Experience written by Toru Ishikawa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers students an introduction to human spatial cognition and experience and is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students who are interested in the study of maps in the head and the psychology of space. We live in space and space surrounds us. We interact with space all the time, consciously or unconsciously, and make decisions and actions based on our perceptions of that space. Have you ever wondered how some people navigate perfectly using maps in their heads while other people get lost even with a physical map? What do you mean when you say you have a poor "sense of direction"? How do we know where we are? How do we use and represent information about space? This book clarifies that our knowledge and feelings emerge as a consequence of our interactions with the surrounding space, and show that the knowledge and feelings direct, guide, or limit our spatial behavior and experience. Space matters, or more specifically space we perceive matters. Research into spatial cognition and experience, asking fundamental questions about how and why space and spatiality matters to humans, has thus attracted attention. It is no coincidence that the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for research into a positioning system in the brain or "inner GPS" and that spatial information and technology are recognized as an important social infrastructure in recent years. This is the first book aimed at graduate and advanced undergraduate students pursuing this fascinating area of research. The content introduces the reader to the field of spatial cognition and experience with a series of chapters covering theoretical, empirical, and practical issues, including cognitive maps, spatial orientation, spatial ability and thinking, geospatial information, navigation assistance, and environmental aesthetics.

Spatial Cognition

Author : R. Lloyd
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940173044X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Spatial Cognition written by R. Lloyd and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 10.2 Summary of Ideas ..................................................... 256 10.2.1 Spatial Behavior As Rules For Decision Making ................................... 258 10.2.2. Cognitive Mapping ......................................................................... 258 10.2.3. Storing Information ................................................. " ...................... 260 10.2.4. Searching ..................................................................................... 260 10.2.5. Learning ........................................................................................ 261 10.2.6. Judging Similarity .......................................................................... 261 10.2.7 Neural Geographic Information Science (NGIS) .................................... 262 REFERENCES ............................................... 265 INDEX ........................ .............. 279 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................... 287 x LIST OF TABLES Table 8.1: The types of similarity comparisons created for the experiment to determine the effect ofx as a first or second common or distinctive feature (Lloyd, Rostkowska-Covington, and Steinke 1996). Table 9.1: Data used to compute the gravity model using regression and a neural network. Data for all variables are scaled so that the highest value equals 0.9 and the lowest value equals 0.1. Table 9.2: Class means for 11 socio-economic and life-cycle variables for the Black, Integrated, and White classes. Table 9.3: Weights for neuron at row 5 and column 1 that learned the blue horizontal rectangle map symbol. LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1.1: Spatial cognition is a research area of interest for both geography and psychology. Both disciplines are interested in fundamental ideas related to encoding processes, internal representations, and decoding processes. Figure 1.2: The place names on this map of New Orleans depict the propositions used for navigation by local residents. A similar map appeared in the June 30, 1991, edition of The Times-Picayune.