Open-ended project
Budget resources of KMRC
There is evidence from event cognition literature that meaningful events (e.g.
preparing a cup of tea or a tactical move in a basketball play) are mentally
represented in an abstract way in which surface details are no longer included.
In contrast, meaningless "random events" (like white dots moving in
an arbitrary way) that lack semantic coherence are represented in a more "literal"
manner. So far, basic mechanisms of spatial cognition have concentrated on
random constellations or random events. The current projects aim to
extend this line of research to semantically coherent events. Based on theories
of event cognition, it is expected that the spatial characteristics of such
meaningful events are cognitively processed in ways that differ fundamentally
from those of meaningless random events.
