From compasses and maps to mountains and territories: Experimental results on geographic cognitive categorization

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

Volumn 0, Issue , 2013, Pages 63-81

  Giannakopoulou, Leda ^a   Kavouras, Marinos ^a   Kokla, Margarita ^a   Mark, David ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive categorization; Expert non expert distinction; Geographic concepts; Language

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE CATEGORIZATION; EXPERT/NON-EXPERT DISTINCTION; GEO-SPATIAL; GEOGRAPHIC CONCEPT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; GEOGRAPHICS; LANGUAGE; REAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 84951293762     PISSN: 18632246     EISSN: 18632351     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-34359-9_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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