Assessment of simulated cognitive maps: The influence of prior knowledge from cartographic maps

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 161-180

  Lloyd, Robert Earl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive maps; Self organized maps; Simulations; Sketch maps; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

COGNITIVE MAPS; SKETCH MAPS; SPATIAL LEARNING;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

CARTOGRAPHY; COGNITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MAPPING;

EID: 24944572706     PISSN: 15230406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1559/1523040054738963     Document Type: Article

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