Temporal reasoning based on semi-intervals
Artificial Intelligence
Maintaining knowledge about temporal intervals
Communications of the ACM
Language and Spatial Cognition
Language and Spatial Cognition
A Cognitive Assessment of Topological Spatial Relations: Results from an Empirical Investigation
COSIT '97 Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: A Theoretical Basis for GIS
Reasoning about Binary Topological Relations
SSD '91 Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Advances in Spatial Databases
Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning Techniques
KI '97 Proceedings of the 21st Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Reasoning about Gradual Changes of Topological Relationships
Proceedings of the International Conference GIS - From Space to Territory: Theories and Methods of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning on Theories and Methods of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning in Geographic Space
Using Orientation Information for Qualitative Spatial Reasoning
Proceedings of the International Conference GIS - From Space to Territory: Theories and Methods of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning on Theories and Methods of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning in Geographic Space
Matching names and definitions of topological operators
COSIT'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Spatial Information Theory
Perceptually induced distortions in cognitive maps
SC'04 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Spatial Cognition: reasoning, Action, Interaction
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
The endpoint hypothesis: a topological-cognitive assessment of geographic scale movement patterns
COSIT'09 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Spatial information theory
Cognitive invariants of geographic event conceptualization: what matters and what refines?
GIScience'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Geographic information science
Knowledge representation and reasoning for qualitative spatial change
Knowledge-Based Systems
Exploiting qualitative spatial reasoning for topological adjustment of spatial data
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
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The present paper examines whether the formal topological characterisation of spatial relations between moving geographic regions provides an adequate basis for the human conceptualisation of motion events for those regions. The paper focuses on gradual changes in topological relationships caused by continuous transformations of the regions (specifically, translations). Using a series of experiments, the conceptualisation and perception of conceptual neighborhoods is investigated. In particular, the role of conceptual neighborhoods in characterising motion events is scrutinised. The experiments employ a grouping paradigm and a custom-made tool for presenting animated icons. The analysis examines whether paths through a conceptual neighborhood graph sufficiently characterise the conceptualisation of the movement of two regions. The results of the experiments show that changes in topological relations-as detailed by paths through a conceptual neighborhood graph-are not sufficient to characterise the cognitive conceptualisation of moving regions. The similarity ratings show clear effects of perceptually and conceptually induced groupings such as identity (which region is moving), reference (whether a larger or a smaller region is moving), and dynamics (whether both regions are moving at the same time).