Studies of the cognitive representation of spatial relations: I. Overview.
The present article reviews the major results and conclusions of two experiments on the mapping and planning of actual (campus buildings) and hypothetical (ideal town facilities) items in a two-dimensional space. Direct mapping (planning) techniques are preferred over the method of pair comparisons, especially in the case of the actual environment.
D003071:Cognition; D004215:Distance Perception; D006801:Humans; D009949:Orientation; D013028:Space Perception