SPP 1021: Raumkognition

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Spatial cognition includes acquisition, organization, use, and revision of knowledge about spatial environments. The spatial cognition priority programme focuses on the investigation of natural cognitive systems engaged in representing and processing spatial knowledge. The research projects engage in (1) empirical investigations on human cognitive spatial abilities; (2) theoretical investigations on the potential and limits of approaches to representing and processing spatial knowledge; (3) modeling and implementing different representation and processing schemes and their evaluation; (4) investigating spatial formalisms in the framework of computer-based systems (e.g. human-computer interfaces). The interdisciplinary research program employs paper-and-pencil studies as well as computer simulations and robot experiments to investigate the models developed. A special focus has been on the investigation of qualitative spatial representations. The program heavily interacts with related research programs, e.g. in the area of cognitive geography. An important goal of the program is to relate the approaches developed in different disciplines to one another.