A conceptual model of the cognitive processing of environmental distance information

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5756 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-17

  Montello, Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive processing; Distance information; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE PROCESS; COGNITIVE PROCESSING; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DIRECT EXPERIENCE; DISTANCE INFORMATION; INFORMATION SOURCES; ON TIME; RETRIEVAL PROCESS; SPATIAL COGNITION; VISUAL ACCESS;

IMAGE REGISTRATION; INFORMATION THEORY;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH;

EID: 70350393254     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03832-7_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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