A Physiology of Landscape II: Perception and Movement

Abstract

Thinking that perception is a function of the movement we can say that the way in which individuals perceive their environment depends on how they move. If individuals change their perception of the environment through the movement, the spatial dimension in archaeology can be conceptualized from the profiles of mobility of individuals. Today, the methods of analysis in GIS enable the reconstruction of the patterns of human mobility using the latest research on physiology of the movement and the so-called analysis of visibility. This enables the development of approaches that emphasize cognitive aspects related to the perception and movement and thus the creation of the GIS tools that go beyond the notion of Cartesian space.