Cognitive Maps: Encoding and Decoding Information

The experiences of learning a city by direct experience or navigating through it and studying a map of it provide people with different types of spatial information. Navigation is thought to provide procedural knowledge, which is stored as verbal coding, and map reading is thought to provide survey...

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Published in:	Annals of the Association of American Geographers Vol. 79; no. 1; pp. 101 - 124
Main Author:	Lloyd, Robert
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK Taylor & Francis Group 01.03.1989 Association of American Geographers Blackwell Publishing Ltd Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects:	absolute distortion Behaviour and perception Bgi / Prodig Cartography Cities Cognition Cognition & reasoning cognitive map Cognitive mapping Coordinate systems Decoding Downtowns Encoding Encoding (Cognitive process) Error rates Geodetic position Human geography Information Landmarks Mapping Memory Navigation Population geography and social geography procedural knowledge reference points relative distortion Social research survey knowledge Spatial behaviour Cognitive process Error Perception Urban area Cognitive space Location
ISSN:	0004-5608, 2469-4452, 1467-8306, 2469-4460
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