The effects of prior knowledge on the learning of categories of maps

Professional Geographer

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 126-136

  Patton, David K ^a  

^a SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categories; Cognition; Map reading; Prototypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001520119     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0033-0124.00063     Document Type: Article

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