Hanspeter A. Mallot is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Tübingen. He is the author of Computational Vision: Information Processing in Perception and Visual Behavior (MIT Press).

Preface ix
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Space and Mind 1
1.2 Behavior 4
1.3 Space and Mathematics 11
1.4 Neurophysiology 18
1.5 Topics in Spatial Cognition 21

2 Egomotion 31
2.1 The Space for Motion 31
2.2 Perceiving Egomotion 34
2.3 Optic Flow 38
2.4 Neural Mechanisms 45
2.5 Performance 47
2.6 Cue Integration 52

3 Peripersonal Space 63
3.1 A Behavioral View 63
3.2 Visual Space Cues 64
3.3 The Intrinsic Geometry of Peripersonal Space 70
3.4 Mental Transformations: Predictive Coding of Space 75
3.5 Recalibration in Peripersonal Space 83

4 In the Loop 89
4.1 Directed Movement 89
4.2 Left–Right Balancing 92
4.3 Cognitive Components 100
4.4 Augmented Action–Perception Cycles 110

5 Path Integration 119
5.1 Dead Reckoning 119
5.2 The Home Vector 120
5.3 Path Integration in Humans 131
5.4The Computational Neuroscience of Path Integration 138

6 Places and Landmarks 157
6.1 Here and There 157
6.2 Snapshot Homing 162
6.3 Including Depth Information 175
6.4 Identified Landmark Objects 184
6.5 Neurophysiology of Place Recognition 190

7 Spatial Memory 205
7.1 What Is Working Memory? 205
7.2 Working Memory Tasks 210
7.3 Models and Mechanisms for Spatial Working Memory 225
7.4 Routes 232
7.5 From Routes to Maps 241

8 Maps and Graphs 257
8.1 Spatial Problem Solving 257
8.2 Graphs: Basic Concepts 259
8.3 Metric Maps 264
8.4 Regions and Spatial Hierarchies 281

9 Epilogue: Reason Evolves 301
Index 311