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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…
Abouagour, Mohamed, Garyfallidis, Eleftherios
Automated floor plan generation lies at the intersection of combinatorial search, geometric constraint satisfaction, and functional design requirements—a confluence that has historically resisted a unified computational treatment. While recent deep learning approaches have improved the state of the art, they often…
Weixing Chen, Dafeng Chi, Yang Liu, Yuxi Yang + 6 more
The automated generation of layouts is vital for embodied intelligence and autonomous systems, supporting applications from virtual environment construction to home robot deployment. Current approaches, however, suffer from spatial hallucination and struggle with balancing semantic fidelity and physical plausibility…
Jiawei Hou, Wenhao Guan, Xiangyang Xue, Taiping Zeng
Scene Understanding Authors: ['Jiawei Hou' 'Wenhao Guan' 'Xiangyang Xue' 'Taiping Zeng'] Spatial cognition empowers animals with remarkably efficient navigation abilities, largely depending on the scene-level understanding of spatial environments. Recently, it has been found that a neural population in the postrhinal…
Ying Li, Xia Sun, Yu Liu, Yixue Dong + 1 more
Spatial updating-the ability to continuously revise spatial representations during locomotion-is fundamental to adaptive navigation and depends on flexible reference frames. Although previous research has established independent effects of field cognitive style and scene layout on spatial performance, their interaction…
Ling Zhao, Baijun Li, Mohammad Nyme Uddin
To solve the problems of insufficient global optimization ability and easy loss of population diversity in building interior layout design, this study proposes a novel layout optimization model integrating interactive genetic algorithm and improved differential evolutionary algorithm to improve the global optimization…
Zhe Zhang, Yuchun Zheng
Introduction Space optimization in architectural planning is a crucial task for maximizing functionality and improving user experience in built environments. Traditional approaches often rely on manual planning or supervised learning techniques, which can be limited by the availability of labeled data and may not adapt…
Runfeng Sun, Wenjia Liu, Yuan Zhang
This paper explores the urban spatial structure and social stratification of Northern Wei Dynasty Luoyang City, based on Record of the Monasteries of Luoyang. Adopting a spatial humanities approach, the study integrates quantitative approaches, including the application of geographic information systems (GIS) for…
Taiping Zeng, Ming Bo Cai
The representation of geometric structures in the environments is key to self-localization during human spatial navigation. Its spatial organization in the visual system is not fully characterized. Using brain activity from 20 participants watching videos from identical realistic virtual environments under different…
Ying Liu, Yong-Di Long, Bo-Hai Wang, Xing She
In order to improve the spatial layout ability of ecological buildings under the background of rural revitalization, a multiobjective planning and decision-making model for the spatial layout of ecological buildings is constructed. Based on the visual impact detection of ecological building space, a three-dimensional…
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…
Ran Yu, Hongsheng Cheng, Yun Ye, Qin Wang + 8 more
'Cheng Wang' 'Yue Su' 'Xingyu Zhang' 'Sheng-Hau Lin' 'Xiaofeng Zhao' 'Ying Li'] Optimization of the territorial spatial patterns can promote the functional balance and utilization efficiency of space, which is influenced by economic, social, ecological, and environmental factors. Consequently, the final implementation…
Weixi Feng, Wanrong Zhu, Tsu-Jui Fu, Varun Jampani + 5 more
'Xuehai He' 'Sugato Basu' 'Xin Eric Wang' 'William Yang Wang'] Attaining a high degree of user controllability in visual generation often requires intricate, fine-grained inputs like layouts. However, such inputs impose a substantial burden on users when compared to simple text inputs. To address the issue, we study…
Baiwei Liu, Zampeta-Sofia Alexopoulou, Siyang Kong, Anne Zonneveld + 1 more
A central challenge for working memory is to retain information in a format in which representations remain separated and can be selectively prioritised for behaviour. While it is established that space serves as a foundational “scaffold” for mnemonic individuation, the format and flexibility of spatial scaffolding for…
Michael Peer, Russell A. Epstein
Many of the environments that we navigate through every day are hierarchically organized—they consist of spaces nested within other spaces. How do our mind/brains represent such environments? To address this question, we familiarized participants with a virtual environment consisting of a building within a courtyard…
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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…
Kyle Jasmin, Max Bullock, Frederic Dick, Roger Atkins + 3 more
Grid cells in human entorhinal cortex encode spatial layouts for real-world navigation, yet their role in conceptual navigation remains unclear. Here we show that mentally transforming tones within a purely auditory pitch-duration space engages spatial circuits, and that such resources are causally necessary. In…
Yu Tian, Chinmayi Subramanya, Carl D. Modes
Spatially embedded networks are central to many physical and biological systems, where geometry and connectivity jointly shape structure and function. Examples abound across the scales of biological organization, from network-like membrane-bound organelles in the cell to mesoscale tissue organization of multiple…
Xiaoliang Luo, Robert M. Mok, Bradley C. Love
Discoveries of functional cell types, exemplified by the cataloging of spatial cells in the hippocampal formation, are heralded as scientific breakthroughs. We question whether the identification of cell types based on human intuitions has scientific merit and suggest that “spatial cells” may arise in non-spatial…
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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…
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…
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…