The Construction Of Cognitive Maps

And Processes Which Are Exclusive To Humans In Their Encoding, Storing, Decoding And Retrieving Spatial Knowledge For Various Tasks. The Authors Present And Discuss Connectionist Models Of Cognitive Maps Which Are Based On Local Representation, Versus Models Which Are Based On Distributed Representation, As Well As Connectionist Models Concerning Language And Spatial Relations. As Is Well Known, Gibson's (1979) Ecological Approach Suggests A View On Cognition Which Is Diametrically Different From The Classical Main Stream View: Perception (and Thus Cognition) Is Direct, Immediate And Needs No Internal Information Processing, And Is Thus Essentially An External Process Of Interaction Between An Organism And Its External Environment.