title: Descriptions and depictions of environments.
abstract: Subjects studied maps with the expectation that they would draw or describe them from memory. In fact, subjects did both. Order of drawing or describing landmarks revealed the mental organization of environments. Organization was quite similar across maps and descriptions of the same environments, revealing hierarchical structures based on spatial and functional features of the environments and on conventions for sequencing the landmarks.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Stanford University, California 94305-2130.
authors.forename: H A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tversky
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008377:Maps as Topic; D008568:Memory; D011932:Reading; D013028:Space Perception