Visuo-spatial Programming: Visualising software structure to aid the integration of egocentric software navigation into an allocentric spatial cognitive map that supports software navigation and composition

This paper takes as its starting point the conceptual metaphor ‘life is a journey’ as defined by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) in order to advance a new reading of William Michael Rossetti's Democratic Sonnets (1907). These political verses may be defined as cognitive-semantic poems, which attest to the centrality of travel in the creation of literary and artistic meaning. Rossetti's Democratic Sonnets is not only a political manifesto against tyranny and oppression, promoting the struggle for liberalism and democracy as embodied by historical figures such as Napoleon, Mazzini, Cavour, and Garibaldi; but it also reproduces Rossetti's real and imagined journeys throughout Europe in the late nineteenth century. This essay examines these references in light of the issues they raise, especially the poet as a traveller and the journey metaphor in poetry. But its central purpose is to re-read Democratic Sonnets as a cognitive map of Rossetti's mental picture of France and Italy. A cognitive map, first theorised by Edward Tolman in the 1940s, is a very personal representation of the environment that we all experience, serving to navigate unfamiliar territory, give direction, and recall information. In terms of cognitive linguistics, Rossetti is a figure whose path is determined by French and Italian landmarks (Paris, the island of St. Helena, the Alps, the Venice Lagoon, Mount Vesuvius, and so forth), which function as reference points for orientation and are tied to the historical events of the Italian Risorgimento. Through his sonnets, Rossetti attempts to build into his work the kind of poetic revolution and sense of history which may only be achieved through encounters with other cultures.

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Location, location, location: spatial programming of GPCR signalling

Endocrine Abstracts ◽

10.1530/endoabs.41.s20.1 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Aylin Hanyaloglu

Keyword(s):

Spatial Programming

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An Adaptive Bilateral Filter for Noise Removal and Novel Hybrid Fuzzy Cognitive Map-FNN Edge Detection Method for Images

International Review on Computers and Software (IRECOS) ◽

10.15866/irecos.v9i9.3536 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 9 (9) ◽

pp. 1621 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

T. Karthikeyan ◽

N. P. Revathy

Keyword(s):

Edge Detection ◽

Detection Method ◽

Bilateral Filter ◽

Noise Removal ◽

Cognitive Map ◽

Fuzzy Cognitive Map ◽

Edge Detection Method

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CIRCULAR ECONOMY STRATEGIES FOR ELECTRIC AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT: A FUZZY COGNITIVE MAP

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal ◽

10.30638/eemj.2017.197 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 16 (8) ◽

pp. 1807-1817 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Fabiana Tornese ◽

Maria Grazia Gnoni ◽

Giorgio Mossa ◽

Giovanni Mummolo ◽

Rossella Verriello

Keyword(s):

Circular Economy ◽

Cognitive Map ◽

Electronic Equipment ◽

Fuzzy Cognitive Map

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The orbitofrontal cartographer

10.31234/osf.io/4mrxy ◽

2020 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Matthew P H Gardner ◽

Geoffrey Schoenbaum

Keyword(s):

Orbitofrontal Cortex ◽

Economic Value ◽

Cognitive Map ◽

Credit Assignment ◽

General Consensus ◽

Future Events ◽

Causal Structures ◽

Precise Content ◽

Successes And Failures

Theories of orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) function have evolved substantially over the last few decades. There is now a general consensus that the OFC is important for predicting aspects of future events and for using these predictions to guide behavior. Yet the precise content of these predictions and the degree to which OFC contributes to agency contingent upon them has become contentious, with several plausible theories advocating different answers to these questions. In this review we will focus on three of these ideas - the economic value, credit assignment, and cognitive map hypotheses – describing both their successes and failures. We will propose that these failures hint at a more nuanced role for the OFC in supporting the proposed functions when an underlying model or map of the causal structures in the environment must be constructed or updated.

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