@inproceedings{cb48a5b0c1084bc391a26d31e5cde278,
title = "A cognitive assessment of topological spatial relations: Results from an empirical investigation",
abstract = "Whether or not a formal approach to spatial relations is a cognitively adequate (the term will be explicated in this paper) model of human spatial knowledge is more often based on the intuition of the researchers than on empirical data. In contrast, the research reported here is concerned with an empirical assessment of one of the three general classes of spatial relations, namely topological knowledge. In the reported empirical investigation, subjects had to group numerous spatial configurations consisting of two circles with respect to their similarity. As is well known, such tasks are solved on the basis of underlying spatial concepts. The results were compared with the RCC-tlieory and Egenhofen{\textquoteright}s approach to topological relations and support the assumption that both theories are cognitively adequate in a number of important aspects.",
author = "Markus Knauff and Reinhold Rauh and Jochen Renz",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1997.; 3rd Biennial Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 1997 ; Conference date: 15-10-1997 Through 18-10-1997",
year = "1997",
doi = "10.1007/3-540-63623-4_51",
language = "English",
isbn = "3540636234",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "193--206",
editor = "Hirtle, {Stephen C.} and Frank, {Andrew U.}",
booktitle = "Spatial Information Theory",
address = "Germany",
}