David M. Mark

Email: dmark@geog.buffalo.edu

SPRING 2000 INFORMATION: GEO 592

• January 18 (Tu) 1. Introduction
• Discussion of course objectives and requirements.
• January 20 (Th) 2. What is "Cognitive Science"?
• A brief introduction to this field which combines the more computational and formal aspects of cognitive psychology and related behavioral sciences with the theoretical or explanatory side of artificial intelligence.

• January 25 (Tu) 3. The Role of Formal Models and Human Subjects
• Why develop formal, mathematical models? Software Engineering, GIS, etc.
• Why use human subjects? How?
• January 27 (Th) 4. Experiential Realism and Metaphor
• Experiential and Formal Models of Geographic Space, by David M. Mark and Andrew U. Frank
• Lakoff, Johnson

• February 1 (Tu) 5. Cognition and Language
• Why language seems to matter. Talmy's "How Language Structures Space"; The Whorf Hypothesis. Alternative sources of information about thinking.
• February 3 (Th) 6. 'Mental Maps'
• Previous research in geography. Gould and White's book. Kuipers' work. Do 'mental maps' or 'cognitive maps' have to be 'map- like'? Tversky's 'cognitive collage.

• February 8 (Tu) (DMM away, class cancelled)
• February 10 (Th) 7. Behavioral Geography
• How economic and social/cultural geographers have included mental models of geographic space in the research. Golledge; others. Choice models. Hierarchical models of space.

• February 15 (Tu) 8. Environmental 'Perception'
• A 'mis-named' sub-field of geography. Particularly has been concerned with hazards, how people think about natural hazards and react to them.
• February 17 (Th) 9. Navigation and Wayfinding

• February 22 (Tu) 10. Typologies of Spatial Knowledge
• Freundschuh's typology. Related ideas
• February 24 (Th) 11. Scale: Kinds of Spaces
• 'Zubin spaces'; Montello's model

• February 29 (Tu) TEST #1
• March 2 (Th) 12. Research Methods: Human subjects Models

• March 7 & 9 Spring break, no classes

• March 14 (Tu) 13. (no class)
• March 16 (Th) 14. How Language Structures Space (Talmy's work)

• March 21 (Tu) 15. Spatial Relations: Introduction
• March 23 (Th) 16. Spatial Relations: Topological Relations
• the 9-Intersection and related models

• March 28 (Tu) 17. Spatial Relations: Distance and Direction
• quantitative (Peuquet) and qualitative (Frank)
• March 30 (Th) 18. Spatial Categories: Entity Types and Feature Codes
• PDFPowerPoints of This Lecture
• PDFPowerPoints, Part 2 of This Lecture
• Smith, B., and Mark, D. M., 1998. Ontology and Geographic KindsProceedings, Eighth International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Vancouver, British Columbia.
• Mark, D. M., Smith, B., and Tversky, B., 1999. Ontology and Geographic Objects: An Empirical Study of Cognitive Categorization In Freksa, C., and Mark, D. M., editors, Spatial Information Theory: A Theoretical Basis for GIS, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences, pp. 283-298.

• April 4 (Tu) 19. Spatial Categories, continued
  • PDFPowerPoints, Categories lecture, Part 2
• April 6 AAG Meeting, Pittsburgh, April 5-8 2000; GEO 592 cancelled