top of page
pexels-omar-elsharawy-6109449_edited_edited_edited_edited.png

ISF Workshop: Urban innovation through

walkability and spatial cognition

September 19-21, 2022, Tel Aviv University

HUJI_LogoEng_hor_preview_rev_1_edited_edited.png
ISF logo_edited_edited_edited.png
Tel_Aviv_university_logo_edited_edited.p

Prof. Claus-Christian Carbon

Carbon Picture_edited.jpg

Claus-Christian Carbon studied Psychology (Dipl.-Psych.), followed by Philosophy (M.A.), both at University of Trier, Germany. After receiving his PhD from the Freie Universität Berlin and his “Habilitation” at the University of Vienna, Austria, he worked at the University of Technology Delft, Netherlands and the University of Bamberg, Germany, where he currently holds a full professorship leading the Department of General Psychology and Methodology and the “Forschungsgruppe EPAEG”—a research group devoted to enhancing the knowledge, methodology and enthusiasm in the fields of cognitive ergonomics, psychological aesthetics and Gestalt (see www.experimental-psychology.com and www.epaeg.de for more details). Currently, he is the Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Bamberg. CCC is Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Art & Perception, Section Editor of Perception and i-Perception, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Journal of Perceptual Imaging and Advances in Cognitive Psychology and a member of the Editorial Boards of Open Psychology, Musicae Scientiae and Leadership, Education and Personality.

Maps on our mind: Flexible, dynamic, non-unitary, situation-adapted, sparse, and intelligent

Abstract:

Tolman (1948) introduced the central concept of “cognitive maps” to a variety of scientific fields addressing maps that are used by humans to navigate through the environment, inter alia, cognitive psychology, and cognitive geography. The mere term “cognitive map” is, despite its popularity, nevertheless problematic to some extent, mainly due to the too associative link to physical maps, which are rigid and fixed representations of space. The present paper demonstrates how flexible and situation-specific cognitive maps are. Thus, walking through an environment is never based on pre-defined cognitive maps, which can be accessed reliably and objectively, but is oriented towards an action-driven representation that is constructed per run-time. Findings from our own research support the notion that, in contrast to physical maps, the cognitive representation of the spatial environment is characterized by non-unitary and flexible qualities. 

(Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, 12:00-13:30 IL)

bottom of page