Showing papers by "Gail McKoon published in 1984"

The mental representation of knowledge acquired from maps.

Abstract: The experiments reported here, tested how knowledge acquired from simple maps is mentally represented and processed. These experiments also tested a new methodology for examining spatial representations. The main question addressed in this research was how route and distance information are represented in cognitive maps. In particular, the experiments examined the relative contributions of route and Euclidean distance on a map to determining the psychological distance between locations in the mental representation of that map. For example, in Figure 1, the cities Sedona and Emmet are equidistant from Nesmith in terms of Euclidean distance. However, Sedona is much closer to Nesmith than is Emmet in terms of route distance. In Experiments 1 and 2, we attempted to determine if the psychological distance between cities in a cognitive map would be primarily dependent on the route distance or the Euclidean distance between those cities on the real map. The second goal of this research was to test a new methodology for examining the