Embodied spatial cognition: Biological and artificial systems

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1658-1670

  Mallot, Hanspeter A ^a   Basten, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Graph representations; Landmark use; Spatial cognition; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; MACHINE DESIGN; NAVIGATION;

EMBODIMENT; GRAPH REPRESENTATIONS; LANDMARK USE; SPATIAL COGNITION; SPATIAL MEMORY;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 68649094953     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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