The current Web is rich in geographically referenced data. Mining, retrieving, and sharing this data raises the need for rich geographical place name resources that record spatial and thematic elements of geographical places. Here, possible services offered at a place and human activities that can be practised there are considered useful concepts to discover and encode in place name resources. ...

A perception study with acoustically manipulated tokens sought to establish the relative weight of noise vs. formant transition cues in the perception of stop place of articulation by Polish listeners, and to replicate previous findings from a crowdsourced experiment. Results suggest that noise cues are primary for Poles in stop place identification. It is argued that this finding is compatible...

Accurate spatial localization requires a mechanism that corrects for errors, which might arise from inaccurate sensory information or neuronal noise. In this paper, we propose that Hippocampal place cells might implement such an error correction mechanism by integrating different sources of information in an approximately Bayes-optimal fashion. We compare the predictions of our model with physi...

Hippocampal place cells fire at different rates when a rodent runs through a given location on its way to different destinations. However, it is unclear whether such firing represents the animal's intended destination or the execution of a specific trajectory. To distinguish between these possibilities, Lister Hooded rats (n = 8) were trained to navigate from a start box to three goal locations...

Land change science has demonstrated that rural livelihoods around the world both drive and reflect changing environmental regimes and political economic/ structural transformations. This article explores the relationship between increasingly globalized rural livelihoods and in-place land change, assessing results from social surveys of smallholding households in the southern Yucatán region. We...

The idea that the rat hippocampus stores a map of space is based on the existence of "place cells" that show "location-specific" firing. The discharge of place cells is confined with remarkable precision to a cell-specific part of the environment called the cell's "firing field." We demonstrate here that firing is not nearly as reliable in the time domain as in the positional domain. Discharge ...

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The spatial mapping theory of hippocampal function proposes that the rat hippocampus is specialized for navigational computations, computations that allow the animal to solve difficult spatial problems. In this paper, we review evidence obtained by recording place cells and other "spatially tuned" cells from freely moving rats. Our main conclusion is that the nature of the signals carried by th...

We investigated how humans encode large-scale spatial environments using a virtual taxi game. We hypothesized that if 2 connected neighborhoods are explored jointly, people will form a single integrated spatial representation of the town. However, if the neighborhoods are first learned separately and later observed to be connected, people will form separate spatial representations; this should ...

It has been hypothesized that one of the functions of the hippocampus is to enable the learning of relationships between different stimuli experienced in the environment. These relationships might be spatial ("the bathroom is about 5m down the hall from the bedroom") or temporal ("the coffee is ready about 3 min after the button was pressed"). Critically, these spatial and temporal relationship...