A Psychologically-Plausible Model for Spatial Language

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PUBLICATIONS

Books

Coventry, K. R. & Garrod, S. C. (2004). Saying, Seeing and Acting: The Psychological Semantics of Spatial Prepositions. Essays in Cognitive Psychology Series. Psychology Press. Hove and New York.

Coventry, K. R. & Olivier, P. (Eds.) (2002). Spatial Language. Cognitive and Computational Perspectives. Dordrecht, the Netherlands; Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp283.

Refereed Articles

Richards, L. V., Coventry, K. R. & Clibbens, J. (2004). Where’s the orange? Geometric and extra-geometric factors in English children’s talk of spatial locations. Journal of Child Language, 31, 153-175.

Coventry, K. R. & Guijarro-Fuentes, P. (2004). Las preposiciones en español y en inglés: la importancia relativa del espacio y función. (Spatial prepositions in Spanish and English: the relative importance of space and function). Cognitiva, 16(1), 73-93.

Coventry, K. R., Venn, S. F., Smith, G. D. & Morley, A. M. (2003). Spatial problem solving and functional relations. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 15(1), 71-99.

Coventry, K. R., Venn, S. & Armstead, P. (2002). Object knowledge and the construction of spatial mental models. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive, 21(6), 635-652.

Coventry, K. R. & Garrod, S. C. (in press). Spatial prepositions and the functional geometric framework. Towards a classification of extra-geometric influences. In L. A. Carlson & E. van der Zee (Eds.), Functional features in language and space: Insights from perception, categorization and development. Oxford University Press.

Richards, L. V. & Coventry, K. R. (in press). Children’s production of locative prepositions in English; the influence of geomeotric and extra-geometric factors. In L. A. Carlson & E. van der Zee (Eds.), Functional features in language and space: Insights from perception, categorization and development Oxford University Press.

Coventry, K. R. (2003). Spatial prepositions, spatial templates and “semantic” versus “pragmatic” visual representations. In E. van der Zee and J. Slack (Eds.), Representing Direction in Language and Space, pp255-267. Oxford University Press.

Joyce. D. W., Richards, L. V., Cangelosi, A. & Coventry, K. R. (2003). On the foundations of perceptual symbol systems: Specifying embodied representations via connectionism. In F. Dretje, D. Dorner & H. Schaub (Eds.), The Logic of Cognitive Systems. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modelling, pp147-152. Universitats-Verlag Bamberg, Germany. (pdf file)

Coventry, K. R., Cangelosi, A., Joyce, D. & Richards, L. V. (2002). Putting geometry and function together - Towards a psychologically-plausible computational model for spatial language comprehension. In W. D. Gray & C. D. Schunn (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, p33. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ.

Joyce D., Richards L., Cangelosi A., Coventry K.R. (2002), Object representation-by-fragments in the visual system: A neurocomputational model. In L. Wang, J.C. Rajapakse, K. Fukushima, S.Y. Lee, X. Yao (Eds), Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONP02) IEEE Press, Singapore (pdf file)

Coventry, K. R. & Garrod, S. C. (2001). Towards the development of a psychologically-plausible model for spatial language comprehension embodying geometric and functional relations. Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Language and Space workshop: Defining Functional and Spatial Features. University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

Richards, L. V. & Coventry, K. R. (2001). Children’s production of locative prepositions in English; the influence of geomewtric and extra-geometric factors. In Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Language and Space workshop: Defining Functional and Spatial Features. University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

Martinez, G. C., Cangelosi, A. & Coventry, K. R. (2001). A hybrid neural network and virtual reality system for spatial language processing. Proceedings of the 2001 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. IEEE Press. vol. 1, 16-21 Washington DC.

Cangelosi A., Martinez G.C. (2001). Neural networks for spatial language processing using virtual reality. World Congress on Neuroinformatics: Part II Proceedings, ARGESIM Verlag.

Papers in submission/preparation

Coventry K.R., Richards L., Joyce D. & Cangelosi A. (in preparation), Towards a psychological plausible model of spatial language processing. Journal of Memory and Language

Coventry K.R., Cangelosi A. et al. (in preparation), A computational and experimental model for the geometric functions framework in spatial language. Cognitive Psychology

Cangelosi A., Coventry K.R. et al. (in preparation), Grounding spatial language in perception. 9th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop: Modelling Language, Cognition and Action

Conference Presentations

Richards, L. V. & Coventry, K. R. (2001). Children’s production of locative prepositions in English; the influence of geomewtric and extra-geometric factors. Presented at the 2nd Annual workshop on Language and Space: Defining Functional and Spatial Features. University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.

Coventry, K. R. (2001). Towards the development of a psychologically-plausible model for spatial language comprehension embodying geometric and functional relations. Presented at the 2nd Annual workshop on Language and Space: Defining Functional and Spatial Features. University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.

Coventry, K. R. (2001). Language, space and action. Presented at the Workshop on Aspects of Language Processing, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld, Germany.

Martinez, G. C., Cangelosi, A. & Coventry, K. R. (2001). A hybrid neural network and virtual reality system for spatial language processing. Proceedings of the 2001 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. IEEE Press. vol. 1, 16-21 Washington DC.

Joyce, D.W., Richards, L.V., Cangelosi, C. & Coventry, K.R. (2002). Object representation-by-fragments in the visual system: A neurocomputational model. Proceedings of the 2002  International Conference on Neural Information Processing. Singapore.

Richards L.V, Joyce D.W., Coventry K.R. & Cangelosi A (2002). Constrained computational modelling of spatial language comprehension. The British Psychological Society Cognitive Psychology Section: XIX Annual Conference.

Joyce. D. W., Richards, L. V., Cangelosi, A. & Coventry, K. R. (2003). On the foundations of perceptual symbol systems: Specifying embodied representations via connectionism. The Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modelling, Bamberg, Germany

Richards, L. V. & Coventry, K. R. (2003). When is the chef in front of the cooker? Functional influences on reference frame use. Child Language Seminar, Newcastle, UK.