Freiburg Workshop on Spatial Mental Models, November 8-9, 1996
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Freiburg Workshop on
SPATIAL MENTAL MODELS
Center for Cognitive Science,
University of Freiburg, Germany
November 8-9, 1996
SHORT DESCRIPTION
For the commencement of the "Memospace" research project at the
Freiburg Center for Cognitive Science, we are organizing a workshop
on "Spatial Mental Models". The project is part of the Spatial
Cognition Program funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and
aims at the investigation of principles and mechanisms in spatial
reasoning within the framework of the theory of mental models.
The distinction of three phases in the reasoning process - model
construction, model inspection, and model variation (i.e. the
construction of alternative models) - has proven a valuable
conceptual framework for integrating evidence. Regarding processes
within these phases, however, theoretical assumptions are more or
less detailed, and empirical evidence varies from rather strong
(i.e., premise integration within the phase of model construction)
to nearly non-existent (i.e. concerning the phase of model
variation).
The workshop is bringing together European researchers working in
the field of spatial mental models and spatial reasoning, who have
either made contributions to a more formal treatment of the mental
model approach, or made empirical investigations with respect to
spatial mental models, or come up with cognitive models, or,
ideally, tried to combine all of the former activities.
Main issues addressed by the workshop include:
* empirical evidence for the processes of model construction, model
inspection, and model variation in spatial relational inference
* the issue of pictorial vs. spatial representation format
* methodological problems in investigating spatial mental models
(e.g. spatial priming as method for investigating model inspection)
* current research on spatial mental models and relations to
working memory, imagery, and text comprehension
* alternative theoretical accounts and competing computational
models of spatial reasoning
WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
The workshop program will consist of invited talks only. The
workshop will take place at the University of Freiburg and start in
the afternoon of November 8, and last until the evening of November
9, 1996.
Time slots are 45 min (30 min presentation, 15 min discussion).
Talks report either on current research or give surveys on the above
mentioned issues.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Reinhold Rauh, Markus Knauff, Christoph Schlieder, Gerhard Strube
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg
Institut fuer Informatik und Gesellschaft
Abteilung Kognitionswissenschaft
Friedrichstr. 50
79098 Freiburg i. Br.
CONTACT
If you want to attend, please e-mail/phone/fax to
* reinhold@cognition.iig.uni-freiburg.de
* Phone: +49 761 203 4943
* Fax: +49 761 203 4938
for participation.
LOCATION:
Wilhelmstr. 25, Room 00 006
PROGRAMME
Friday, 8 November 1996
14:15 - 14:30 Welcome and Introduction to the
Freiburg Workshop on Spatial Mental Models
Gerhard Strube
14:30 - 15:15 Mental Models and Spatial Thinking
Ruth Byrne
15:15 - 16:00 Relational Inference
Walter Schaeken
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:15 Pictorial representations with annotations
Christopher Habel
17:15 - 18:00 Discussion on model construction
Saturday, 9 November 1996
9:00 - 9:45 Spatial descriptions as navigational aids
Michel Denis
9:45 - 10:30 Representation and activation of knowledge of routes
Karl Friedrich Wender
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:45 Spatial and Propositional Reasoning:
Mental Models and Working Memory
Karl Christoph Klauer
11:45 - 12:30 Spatial Mental Models in Linear Reasoning
Andre Vandierendonck & Gino De Vooght
12:30 - 13:15 Discussion on model inspection
13:15 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 15:45 What is the proper subject of the psychology of
reasoning?
Keith Stenning
15:45 - 16:30 Reasoning with qualitative spatial relations
Christoph Schlieder, Reinhold Rauh,
Markus Knauff & Gerhard Strube
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 17:45 Fuzzy pictures: individual differences in syllogistic
and heterogeneous reasoning
Jon Oberlander
17:45 - 18:30 Discussion on model variation
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Fuer weitere Informationen verweisen wir auf die Workshop
Web-Seiten unter
http://www.iig.uni-freiburg.de/cognition/events/SMM.html
Die Teilnahme am Workshop ist fuer jede/jeden prinzipiell offen,
und jede/jeder Interessierte ist herzlich dazu eingeladen. Aus
organisatorischen Gruenden bitten wir aber um persoenliche Anmeldung
(Kontaktaufnahme s.o.).
Mit freundlichen Gruessen, auch im Namen von Markus Knauff,
Christoph Schlieder und Gerhard Strube
Reinhold Rauh
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Dr. Reinhold Rauh
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg
Institut fuer Informatik und Gesellschaft
Abteilung Kognitionswissenschaft
Friedrichstr. 50
79098 Freiburg i. Br.
Tel.: 0761-203-4943
Fax: 0761-203-4938
e-mail: reinhold@cognition.iig.uni-freiburg.de
URL: http://www.iig.uni-freiburg.de/cognition/members/reinhold