On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 09:18:52 +0100, Alan Penn <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Anisha,
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>The following should probably be on your reading list in this kind of
area -
>the first does a review of syntax work in the field up until 2001. Bill
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>Shinichi's 2005 paper is the next major advance. I suspect that the 'taxi
>driver' work you are thinking about may be the brain imaging work on
London
>taxi drivers suggesting that they have enlarged posterior hippocampi .?
See
>the Eleanor Maguire papers:
Dr Eleanor Maguire is at the Department of Imaging Neuroscience, UCL ...
She is NOT at space syntax (can't blame her!) ...
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>Penn, A. Space syntax and spatial cognition: or why the axial line?
>Environment and Behaviour, 35, 1, 30-64, Sage Publications, ISSN:0013-
9165.
>Revised version of the paper given as keynote presentation to the 3rd
>International Space Syntax Symposium, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, 2001
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>Hillier, B. and Iida, S. (2005) Network and psychological effects in urban
>movement. In: Cohn, A.G. and Mark, D.M., (eds). Proceedings of Spatial
>Information Theory: International Conference, COSIT 2005,Ellicottsville,
>N.Y., U.S.A.,September 14-18, 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(Vol.
>3693). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 475-490.
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>Kim, Y.O., & Penn, A. Linking the spatial syntax of cognitive maps to the
>spatial syntax of the environment. Environment and Behavior, 36, 4, 483-
504.
>ISSN 00139165
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>E. A. Maguire, D. G. Gadian, I. S. Johnsrude, C. D. Good, J. Ashburner, R.
>S. J. Frackowiak, and C. D. Frith (2000). Navigation-related structural
>change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers. PNAS 97: 4398-4403
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>Eleanor A. Maguire,1* Hugo J. Spiers,2Catriona D. Good,1 Tom Hartley,2
>Richard S.J. Frackowiak,1 and Neil Burgess2, Navigation Expertise and the
>Human Hippocampus: A Structural Brain Imaging Analysis. HIPPOCAMPUS
>13:208-217 (2003)
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>Alan
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>Dear All,
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>I am looking for a paper(s) that deal with Manhattan taxi Drivers;
cognitive
>maps; Axial maps....
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>I remember reading these for my thesis but cannot find them or recall the
>source.
>Any help would be appreciated.
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>Thanks,
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>Anisha
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