Mechanisms for human spatial competence

Authors:
Glenn Gunzelmann;Don R. Lyon
Affiliations:
Air Force Research Laboratory, Mesa, AZ;L3 Communications at Air Force Research Laboratory, Mesa, AZ
Venue:
SC'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Spatial Cognition V: reasoning, action, interaction
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Research spanning decades has generated a long list of phenomena associated with human spatial information processing. Additionally, a number of theories have been proposed about the representation, organization and processing of spatial information by humans. This paper presents a broad account of human spatial competence, integrated with the ACT-R cognitive architecture. Using a cognitive architecture grounds the research in a validated theory of human cognition, enhancing the plausibility of the overall account. This work posits a close link of aspects of spatial information processing to vision and motor planning, and integrates theoretical perspectives that have been proposed over the history of research in this area. In addition, the account is supported by evidence from neuropsychological investigations of human spatial ability. The mechanisms provide a means of accounting for a broad range of phenomena described in the experimental literature.