Learning Spatial Prototypes

Abstract This paper considers spatial prototypes as cognitive structures that are encoded into memory through experiences with spatial information. A prototype represents a category of information in your memory and serves as an abstraction of the most typical or central member of that category. Results from an experimental study are compared with results from a simulation. The purpose of the experiment is to understand the factors that influence the formation of spatial prototypes in human memory. The purpose of the simulation is to evaluate the ability of neural network models to learn spatial prototypes. Human subjects learn the nature of four categories of maps by viewing individual maps that are instances of the categories. The prototypes for the categories are defined by the variation of the location, size, and orientation of an island on the maps. Subjects then evaluate all possible maps to determine how typical each map is of the category. An analysis of variance reveals that subjects are able to ...

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