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The spatial representation of the Blessed Mary in Italian poetry at the time of the Second Vatican Council

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2023
The representation of the Holy Virgin has long constituted one of the most important thematic lines in Italian poetry, both sacred and profane. In terms of the representation of space, the Blessed Mary was traditionally placed in faraway, celestial ...
Magdalena Maria Kubas
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Représentations de l’urbanité japonaise

open access: yesGéographie et Cultures, 1992
Representations of the Japanese urbanity. « Urbanity » is here understood as the essence of the city. The Japanese urbanity refers in multiple way to nature, whereas the European one was brought forth by opposing the city to the non-city (i.e.
Augustin Berque
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Spatial representations of the viewer’s surroundings [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2018
Abstract Spatial representation surrounding a viewer including outside the visual field is crucial for moving around the three-dimensional world. To obtain such spatial representations, we predict that there is a learning process that integrates visual inputs from different viewpoints covering all the 360° visual angles.
Satoshi Shioiri   +3 more
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Between faith and nature: sacred landscapes of South Tyrol in nineteenth-century travel accounts [PDF]

open access: yesGeographica Helvetica
This paper examines how religion, landscape, and identity intersected in the nineteenth-century South Tyrol using a cultural and historical geography perspective.
L. Brocada
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On-Drawing South American Extent: Geo-Poetic Mapping Palimpsest in the Travesías de Amereida

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2020
Contemporary urbanization, as a process extended beyond the cities, requires original design practices to contribute to the critical understanding and visualization of the multiple spatial and temporal layers that shape the territories.
Álvaro Mercado, Geoffrey Grulois
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Virtual World, Defined from a Technological Perspective, and Applied to Video Games, Mixed Reality and the Metaverse

open access: yes, 2016
There is no generally accepted definition for a virtual world, with many complimentary terms and acronyms having emerged implying a virtual world. Advances in systems architecture techniques such as, host migration of instances, mobile ad-hoc networking,
Nevelsteen, Kim J. L.
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Origin and role of path integration in the cognitive representations of the hippocampus: computational insights into open questions

open access: yesJournal of Experimental Biology, 2019
Path integration is a straightforward concept with varied connotations that are important to different disciplines concerned with navigation, such as ethology, cognitive science, robotics and neuroscience.
F. Savelli, J. Knierim
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Identités et territoires  : des rapports accentués en milieu urbain  ?

open access: yesMétropoles, 2007
Individual or collective identities are social phenomena, mostly plural. From human subject to territory, they form a continuum. Most of them display a geographical component, a spatiality reinforcing and underlining them.
Guy Di Méo
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Serial reproduction reveals the geometry of visuospatial representations

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021
Significance A primary function of human vision is to encode and recall spatial information about visual scenes. We developed an experimental paradigm that reveals the structure of human spatial memory priors in unprecedented detail.
Thomas A. Langlois   +3 more
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