Computing the meaning of localization expressions involving prepositions: The role of concepts and spatial context

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Pribbenow
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Context

The Role of Space in the Formation of Social Ties

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario L. Small ◽  
Laura Adler
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Spatial Context ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Spatial Composition ◽  
Architecture And Design

Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in the relation between networks and spatial context. This review examines critically a selection of the literature on how physical space affects the formation of social ties. Different aspects of this question have been a feature in network analysis, neighborhood research, geography, organizational science, architecture and design, and urban planning. Focusing primarily on work at the meso- and microlevels of analysis, we pay special attention to studies examining spatial processes in neighborhood and organizational contexts. We argue that spatial context plays a role in the formation of social ties through at least three mechanisms, spatial propinquity, spatial composition, and spatial configuration; that fully capturing the role of spatial context will require multiple disciplinary perspectives and both qualitative and quantitative research; and that both methodological and conceptual questions central to the role of space in networks remain to be answered. We conclude by identifying major challenges in this work and proposing areas for future research.

Perceptual Organization and White's Illusion

Perception ◽  
10.1068/p3216 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barton L Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Organization ◽  
Context Dependence ◽  
Spatial Context ◽  
New Method ◽  
Low Level ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Apparent Lightness

The apparent lightness of a surface can be strongly modulated by the spatial context in which it is embedded. Early theories of such context dependence emphasized the role of low-level mechanisms that sense border contrast, whereas a number of recent authors have emphasized the role of perceptual organization in determining perceived lightness. One of the simplest and most theoretically challenging lightness illusions was described by White. This illusion has been explained with a variety of different models, ranging from low-level filter outputs to computations underlying the extraction of mid-level representations of surfaces. Here, I present a new method for determining the organizational forces that shape this illusion. I show that the spatial context of White's pattern not only transforms the apparent lightness of homogeneous target patches, but can also induce dramatic inversions of figure–ground relationships of textured target regions. These phenomena provide new evidence for the role of scission in causing the lightness illusion experienced in White's effect.

Regionalist short fiction as humble fiction

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alda Correia
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Spatial Context ◽  
Regional Literature ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Connections

The representation of the world cannot be separated from its spatial context. Making the effort to understand how space and landscape influence short stories and their structure, and are represented in them, can help us to make sense of the role of this formerly underestimated subgenre, its social and cultural connections and dissonances, its relation to storytelling and popular narratives, and its alleged low importance. How does the short story genre relate to regional and landscape literature? Can we see it as humble fiction and, in this case, how does the humbleness of this subgenre play a part in the growth of the modernist short story? The oral, mythic and fantastic sources of the short story, together with the travel memoir tradition that brought the love for landscape description and the interest in the narration of brief and easily publishable episodes of local life, helped to consolidate a connection between the short story form and regional literature. ‘Humbleness’ is used here in association with the absence of complexity, plainness, simplicity of approach to a complex reality, straightforwardness. From this perspective, aesthetic value was usually absent from regionalist fiction as its only aim was to render the local truth faithfully. However, this ‘aesthetic humbleness’, which should not be used as a generalization, has been increasingly questioned in regard to modernism, postmodernism and postcolonialism and also when we consider specific works.

Using acute stress to improve episodic memory: The critical role of spatial context

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. S63-S64
Author(s):  
Andrew. P. Yonelinas ◽  
Matthew A. Sazma ◽  
Andrew M. McCullough ◽  
Grant S. Shields
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Acute Stress ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Spatial Context

A Cache of 48 Nasca Trophy Heads from Cerro Carapo, Peru

1993 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Browne ◽  
Helaine Silverman ◽  
Rubén García
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Context ◽  
South Coast ◽  
The South ◽  
Salvage Operation ◽  
Skeletal Material ◽  
Trophy Heads

The recent discovery of a cache of 48 Nasca severed heads provides archaeologists with the largest-known associated and provenienced corpus of this material. Although recovery of the skulls was conducted as a salvage operation and the wider spatial context of the find is still unknown, preliminary physical anthropological analysis of the skeletal material, along with archaeological comparison of the cache, provide valuable information on the nature and role of head-hunting in ancient Nasca society of the south coast of Peru.

scholarly journals Relational processing demands and the role of spatial context in the construction of episodic simulations

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Wiebels ◽  
Donna Rose Addis ◽  
David Moreau ◽  
Valerie van Mulukom ◽  
Kelsey Esmé Onderdijk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Information ◽  
Spatial Context ◽  
Relational Processing ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Episodic Simulation ◽  
Processing Demands ◽  
Future Events ◽  
Event Representations ◽  
First Time

Reports on differences between remembering the past and imagining the future have led to the hypothesis that constructing future events is a more cognitively demanding process. However, factors that influence these increased demands, such as whether the event has been previously constructed and the types of details comprising the event, have remained relatively unexplored. Across two experiments, we examined how these factors influence the process of constructing event representations by having participants repeatedly construct events and measuring how construction times and a range of phenomenological ratings changed across time points. In Experiment 1, we contrasted the construction of past and future events and found that, relative to past events, the constructive demands associated with future events are particularly heightened when these events are imagined for the first time. Across repeated simulations, future events became increasingly similar to past events in terms of construction times and incorporated detail. In Experiment 2, participants imagined future events involving two memory details (person, location) and then reimagined the event either i) exactly the same, ii) with a different person, or iii) in a different location. We predicted that if generating spatial information is particularly important for event construction, a change in location will have the greatest impact on constructive demands. Results showed that spatial context contributed to these heightened constructive demands more so than person details, consistent with theories highlighting the central role of spatial processing in episodic simulation. We discuss the findings from both studies in the light of relational processing demands and consider implications for current theoretical frameworks.

scholarly journals The Intersection of Cultural Context and Research Encounter: Focus on Interviewing in Qualitative Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 160940692199569
Author(s):  
Rebecca Yvonne Bayeck
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Spatial Context ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Interview Process ◽  
Similar Consideration ◽  
Context Shapes ◽  
Research Studies

This article discusses the influence of the cultural context on the interview process. With literature demonstrating the role of spatial context on interviews, the article contends that similar consideration should be given to cultural contexts of research studies. Focusing on the cultural context where the interview takes place and the interactions during the interview can help researchers understand and analyze interview material. Interview forms such as conversation/interview bombing emerged from the interaction of cultural context with the interview process. This points to the need for qualitative researchers to explore how the cultural context shapes their research encounter. Such focus will expand the literature on the forms of interview emerging from the intersection of cultural context and interviewing as well as research on spatiality and interview.

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