The Skeleton in the Cognitive Map: A Computational Hypothesis

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  • Benjamin Kuipers
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Expert way-finders in a complex large-scale environment use a “skeleton” of important paths and places to guide their problem-solving [7, 8, 1]. How is this skeleton represented? How is it acquired? And how does it help in way-finding? In this note, I describe a preliminary computational hypothesis to explain the phenomenon of the skeleton, based on the concepts in the Spatial Semantic Hierarchy [6] (which extends the TOUR Model [4, 5]). I also describe a set of computational and cognitive tests that could be applied to this hypothesis. This note proposes a hypothesis and raises questions for investigation, rather than providing definitive answers.

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تاریخ انتشار 2001