Cognitive Maps and Spatial Behaviour: Process and Products

The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 312-317

  Downs, Roger M ^a   Stea, David ^a  

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Author keywords

Cognitive map distortion; Cognitive mapping; Cognitive mapping processes; Cognitive mapping signatures and cognitive representations; Cognitive maps and spatial behaviour; Nature and function of cognitive maps; Perception and cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883435706     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470979587.ch41     Document Type: Chapter

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