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Spatial Concepts: Sensitivity to Changes in Geometric Properties in Environmental and Figural Perception

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This study examined spatial concepts in environment perception, by looking at people’s reaction to changes in shape, scale, orientation, and topology while navigating in a virtual environment, as contrasted to the case of figural perception. Although people attended to changes in shape, they were most sensitive to a topological relation and discriminated it qualitatively from other transformations. In environment perception, compared to figural perception, the property of similarity did not have great cognitive prominence. Mental-rotation ability affected spatial perception, with high-spatial people discriminating between different transformations more clearly and low-spatial people attending more to topological relations.

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  1. Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies and Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan

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  2. Department of Computer Science, Universität Freiburg, Georges-Köhler-Allee 52, 79110, Freiburg, Germany

    Bernhard Nebel

  3. University of California, 93106, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

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Ishikawa, T. (2014). Spatial Concepts: Sensitivity to Changes in Geometric Properties in Environmental and Figural Perception. In: Freksa, C., Nebel, B., Hegarty, M., Barkowsky, T. (eds) Spatial Cognition IX. Spatial Cognition 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8684. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11215-2_24

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