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The primary thesis that I hope to develop in this chapter is that what humans are able to do in space depends heavily on what they remember about it. Humans are continually, but selectively, storing in memory the experience that they accrue in the course of living. This memorial representation of experience is in a sense an internal model of the world in which they live. However, because memory is selective in character (11), the model is not a facsimile. The model is characterized by the economy of a schematic representation, and exhibits a preference for the information that humans need to interact with their world, just as a map exhibits a preference for the information that travellers need for wayfinding. This schematic representation preserves both the spatial extention of relevant things and the temporal extention of relevant events.
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Foulke, E. (1985). The Cognitive Foundations of Mobility. In: Warren, D.H., Strelow, E.R. (eds) Electronic Spatial Sensing for the Blind. NATO ASI Series, vol 99. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1400-6_30
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