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{The mental representation of knowledge acquired from maps.}
Type of publication: Article
Citation: McNamara1984
Journal: Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition
Volume: 10
Number: 4
Year: 1984
Month: October
Pages: 723--32
ISSN: 0278-7393
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
Abstract: Recognition priming and distance estimation were used to investigate the mental representation of knowledge acquired from maps. In Experiment 1, recognition priming showed that cities close in route distance primed each other more than cities far in route distance, even when Euclidean distance was equated. Experiment 2 showed that this finding was robust and not an artifact of the way subjects learned the maps. Distance estimations in Experiment 1 supported the priming results. These results indicated that psychological distance in cognitive maps is primarily dependent on route distance rather than Euclidean distance.
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Keywords: Cognition, Concept Formation, Distance Perception, Humans, Maps as Topic, Mental Recall, orientation, Reaction Time, Space Perception
Authors McNamara, T P
Ratcliff, R
McKoon, G
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