Although cognitive map is a popular metaphor for people's mental representations of environments, as it is typically conceived, it is often too restrictive. Two other metaphors for mental representations are proposed and supported, Cognitive collages are consistent with research demonstrating systematic errors in memory and judgment of environmental knowledge. Yet, for some simple or well-known...

Maps that facilitate learning and navigating through an environment will influence the form and content of cognitive representations developed of that environment. Cognitive representations derived from maps have been demonstrated to exhibit orientation-specificity, a bias toward the orientation at which the map was studied, while cognitive representations derived directly from the environment ...

Hippocampal place cells and entorhinal grid cells have been hypothesized to be able to form map-like spatial representation of the environment, namely cognitive map. In most prior approaches, either neural network methods or only hippocampal models are used for building cognitive maps, lacking biological fidelity to the entorhinal-hippocampal system. This paper presents a novel computational mo...

Cognitive map-design research has the goal of understanding human cognition in order to improve the design and use of maps. As a systematic sub-discipline of cartography, cognitive mapdesign research is a phenomenon of the twentieth century, specifically the latter half. Robinson’s The Look of Maps, published in 1952, played a seminal role in the genesis of cognitive map-design research in seve...

Cognitive maps are widely used for representing decision makers' mental maps and their strategies. However, the cognitive map analysis is usually constrained into the static analyis and has difficulty in exploring dynamic nature of decision makers' mental map. In this paper, a simulation method of cognitve map in the discipline of system dynamics is developed and discussed. In this paper, the c...

Most of the technological systems are characterized by complexity, coupled relationships with feedback and a demanding procedure to develop their models. This paper presents the Soft Computing technique of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps that are knowledge-based methodologies suitable to describe and model complex systems and handle with available information from an abstract point of view. Fuzzy cognitiv...

This paper investigates a hybrid methodology that combines fuzzy logic and neural networks, Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM), for modeling and controlling Supervisory Control Systems. A mathematical description of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCM) will be presented and new construction methods will be extensively examined. A Fuzzy Cognitive Map will be developed to model and control a process example and the...

This paper investigates a hybrid methodology that combines fuzzy logic and neural networks, Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM), for modeling and controlling Supervisory Control Systems. A mathematical description of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCM) will be presented and new construction methods will be extensively examined. A Fuzzy Cognitive Map will be developed to model and control a process example and the...

Humans and other animals build up spatial knowledge of the environment on the basis of visual information and path integration. We compare three hypotheses about the geometry of this knowledge of navigation space: (a) 'cognitive map' with metric Euclidean structure and a consistent coordinate system, (b) 'topological graph' or network of paths between places, and (c) 'labelled graph' incorporat...