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Yichen Wu, Sheng Li
Human spatial navigation relies on the brain’s ability to visually represent the 3D layout of the environment. To understand how the brain encodes the layout information, it is crucial to identify the key features of environmental layout and how they are processed in the human brain. The vector coding principle, which…
Yichen Wu, Sheng Li, Aniruddha Das
Human spatial navigation relies on the brain’s ability to visually represent the 3D layout of the environment. To understand how the brain encodes the layout information, it is crucial to identify the key features of environmental layout and how they are processed in the human brain. The vector coding principle, which…
Linda Henriksson, Marieke Mur, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
Successful visual navigation requires a sense of the geometry of the local environment. How do our brains extract this information from retinal images? Here we visually presented scenes with all possible combinations of five scene-bounding elements (left, right and back wall, ceiling, floor) to human subjects during…
Taiping Zeng, Ming Bo Cai
The representation of geometric structures of one’s surroundings is key to self-localization during human spatial navigation. However, the spatial organization of geometry representation in the visual system has not been fully characterized. By modeling the synchronized brain activity from participants watching…
Sang Hoon Lee, Petter Holme
The graph layouts used for complex network studies have been mainly been developed to improve visualization. If we interpret the layouts in metric spaces such as Euclidean ones, however, the embedded spatial information can be a valuable cue for various purposes. In this work, we focus on the navigational properties of…
Bartosz Baran, Michał Krzyżowski, Zoltán Rádai, Jacek Francikowski + 1 more
The capacity to navigate by layout geometry has been widely recognized as a robust navigational strategy. It was reported in various species, albeit most studies were performed with vision-based paradigms. In the presented study, we aimed to investigate layout symmetry-based navigation in the house cricket, Acheta…
Lingzhu Zhang, Alain Chiaradia
Wayfinding behavior and pedestrian movement pattern research relies on objective spatial configuration representation and analysis, such as space syntax, to quantify and control for the difficulty of wayfinding in multi-level buildings and urban built environments. However, the space syntax's representation…
Bohdan Slavko, K. S. Glavatskiy, Mikhail Prokopenko
The spatial structure of modern cities exhibits highly diverse patterns and keeps evolving under numerous constraints and sustainability demands. Two key dimensions have recently achieved prominence in characterizing this diversity: heterogeneity and spreading. However, modern settlements do not fill the entire…
Niraj Ramesh Dayama, Kashyap Todi, Taru Saarelainen, Antti Oulasvirta
'Antti Oulasvirta'] Grid layouts are used by designers to spatially organise user interfaces when sketching and wireframing. However, their design is largely time consuming manual work. This is challenging due to combinatorial explosion and complex objectives, such as alignment, balance, and expectations regarding…
Felichism Kabo, Umberto Baresi
Site selection is a complex, multicriteria process and a key if poorly understood contributor to the success of new scientific facilities. Typical site selection factors include the budget, sustainability, accessibility, utility and infrastructure costs, and environmental factors, e.g., air quality. Ideally, site…
Ping Yu Fan, Kwok Pan Chun, Mou Leong Tan, Daphne Ngar-Yin Mah + 4 more
'Ana Mijic' 'Graham Strickert' 'Omer Yetemen' 'Qingsong He'] The importance of easy wayfinding in complex urban settings has been recognized in spatial planning. Empirical measurement and explicit representation of wayfinding, however, have been limited in deciding spatial configurations. Our study proposed and tested…
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Scope: I introduce a reproducible, closed-surface mapping of the periodic system onto a sphere with a single equatorial ring, yielding a symmetric alternative to 2D layouts. The construction partitions the sphere into belts that match the cardinalities of the s/p/d/f blocks (2/6/10/14), places lanthanoids and actinoids…
Ramon Weber, Caitlin Mueller, Christoph Reinhart
space use in housing Authors: ['Ramon Weber' 'Caitlin Mueller' 'Christoph Reinhart'] Humans spend over 90% of their time in buildings which account for 40% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, making buildings the leading cause of climate change. To incentivize more sustainable construction, building codes…
Stephen Ramanoël, Marion Durteste, Alice Bizeul, Anthony Ozier-Lafontaine + 4 more
Orienting in space requires the processing and encoding of visual spatial cues. The dominant hypothesis about the brain structures mediating the coding of spatial cues stipulates the existence of a hippocampal-dependent system for the representation of geometry and a striatal-dependent system for the representation of…
Rafał Kaźmierczak, Agnieszka Szczepańska
Spatial planning and development use various visualisation methods. Technological advancements in visualisation techniques have allowed imaging to shift from 2 to 3D dimensions. 3D optical illusion, which converts information recorded in the digital form into a three-dimensional presentation, can be a new tool for…
Kate J. Jeffery
Study of the neural code for space in rodents has many insights to offer for how mammals, including humans, construct a mental representation of space. This code is centered on the hippocampal place cells, which are active in particular places in the environment. Place cells are informed by numerous other spatial cell…
Reza Askarizad, Jinliao He, Terry Van Dijk, Chen Chen + 1 more
'Paul B. Tchounwou'] Achieving legibility within the context of historical districts has become a controversial problem due to their widespread growth and unconventional constructions within, which has led to inconsistencies in the urban context system, and a decrease in the level of urban sociability. This paper aims…
Frank Dickmann, Julian Keil, Annika Korte, Dennis Edler + 3 more
'Denise O´Meara' 'Martin Bordewieck' 'Nikolai Axmacher'] When using navigation devices the "cognitive map" created in the user's mind is much more fragmented, incomplete and inaccurate, compared to the mental model of space created when reading a conventional printed map. As users become more dependent on digital…
Roberto D’Autilia
I metodi della space syntax sono stati oggetto di una vasta discussione e di diverse proposte di modifica degli algoritmi per la costruzione delle linee assiali. La space syntax `e rappresentabile in termini di grafi definiti sugli edge di un grafo primario (line graph). Per mezzo degli algoritmi di line graph, un…
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The range of geometric configurations possible for an arbitrary coordination centre ABn, is a key aspect of stereoisomerism and molecular geometry in general. Despite this, much focus within Chemistry concerning ABn geometries has not taken a rigorous and holistic approach. Using a precise definition for configurations…
Benjamin Ries, Richard J Gowers, James RB Eastwood, Irfan Alibay + 4 more
Alchemical free energy campaigns can be planned using graph theory by building up networks that contain nodes representing molecules that are connected by possible transformations as edges. We introduce Konnektor, an open-source Python package, for systematically planning, modifying, and analyzing free energy…
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In the United States, people of color are disproportionately and unjustly exposed to air pollution. Historically, environmental policy has emphasized aggregate emission reductions; yet major emission reduction scenarios do not sufficiently mitigate relative exposure disparities. Here, we show that without focusing on…
Nan Jia, Arthur Daignault Bouchard, Tianyang Deng, Leon Torres de Oliveira + 2 more
In this paper, we present a generalizable method for the fabrication of disposable spectrofluidic devices for solution characterization by attenuated total reflectance (ATR) Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. A major design feature is the integration of an ATR element into the device rather than the…
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Previously we posited that a systematic and general description of stereoisomerism could be based upon the principles of the polytopal rearrangement model. The most daunting challenge to this end is to comprehensively describe all possible geometries for arbitrary n-coordinate centres, ABn, and for this we have…