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Article: Assessment of simulated cognitive maps: the influence of prior knowledge from cartographic maps.
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- Cartography and Geographic Information Science
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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Introduction
Cognitive maps are internal memory structures that represent learned spatial information. Classic studies have related distortions in cognitive maps to reference point, alignment, and rotation effects (Tversky 1981; Holyoak and Mah 1982). A number of studies have reported differences in cognitive maps that are learned through navigation and map reading (Thorndyke and Hayes-Roth 1982; Lloyd 1989). More recent neuro-imaging studies have suggested that recalling information learned using these processing methods activates different brain systems (Mellet et al. 2000; Shelton and Gabrieli 2004).
The typical human brain (Figure 1a) contains ...