Levels of detail in descriptions and depictions of geographic space

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 227-266

  Brunyé, Tad T ^a   Taylor, Holly A ^a   Worboys, Michael ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalization; Maps; Multimedia; Spatial descriptions; Working memory

Indexed keywords

GENERALIZATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION; MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS; MULTIMEDIA; SPATIAL DESCRIPTIONS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; WORKING MEMORY;

MAPS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 45849143756     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13875860701515472     Document Type: Article

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