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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Cognitive Maps"”.
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The impact of urban geometry on cognitive maps
… the relationship between urban geometry and cognitive maps. It is focused on the question of how human cognition of the built environment is affected by urban geometry. Building on the foundations of Kevin Lynch's studies of environmental perception (Lynch, 1960) and recent configurational …
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Assessing How Information Affects Cognitive Maps of Strategic Issues
… and post-treatment questionnaires to assess how cognitive maps change as a result of exposure to the PCD model. Content analysis is used to describe and analyze the cognitive maps of the participants. Statistical measures of association show that the visualized presentation of information shifts …
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Retrieval, action and the representation of distance in cognitive maps
… of action on the representation of distance in cognitive maps. It is proposed that bias in distance estimation is a function of the contexts of retrieval that trigger the representation of action in memory during evaluation tasks. The proposal is consistent with embodied cognition evidence that …
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Searching for knowledge. The neurophysiology behind the exploration of hippocampal cognitive maps.
… supports exploration across different cognitive domains remains unclear. In this thesis I will provide evidence that hippocampal rhythms support exploration of conceptual domains, further strengthening the parallels between spatial and mnemonic exploration. I will then show that …
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Spatial and Conceptual navigation in Early Blind people: Testing the scaffolding hypothesis of cognitive maps
… in flexible and generalizable structure, namely cognitive maps, which encode relational information, store it, and make it easily accessible and reusable. The hippocampal-entorhinal system plays a crucial role in the creation of cognitive maps, and, particularly, grid cells have been targeted as …
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Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps to Engage Stakeholders in the Search for Solutions to Emerging Environmental Challenges
… Reservoir in Northern Virginia and uses fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs) to characterize stakeholder understanding of the social-ecological system (SES) for freshwater salinization in the Occoquan. A total of thirty-five stakeholders from in and around the Occoquan system participated in this work …
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Architecture value mapping: using fuzzy cognitive maps as a reasoning mechanism for multi-criteria conceptual design evaluation
… networks, designated as 'Architecture Value Maps', to replicate the decision makers' cogitative processes. Ambiguity in the system's overall objectives is reduced hierarchically to reveal a network of criteria that range from the abstract value measures to the design-specific performance …
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Place Perception, Cognitive Maps, and Mass Media: The Interrelationship Between Visual Popular Culture and Regional Mental Mapping
There can be little dispute that today's society makes extensive use of mass media. Movies, television, and radio are far more prominent today than ten years ago, both locally and globally. We rely on these forms of communication for news and information and entertainment and recreation. New …
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Mental maps with and without vision : Forming cognitive maps of space based on the visual and haptic senses
Contains fulltext : 285023.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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A resilience assessment framework for shipping companies which learns from past accidents by using a Fuzzy Cognitive Maps-based approach
… for Marine Accident Learning with Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (MALFCMs) is introduced and explained. The novelty of MALFCMs is the application of fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs) to model the relationships of accident contributors by utilizing information directly from an accident database with the …
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A novel training program for improving spatial orientation: A pilot study
… mental representation, more commonly known as a “cognitive map”, provides detailed information about landmarks and their relationships with each other in space. The inability to effectively form or use cognitive maps is typically compensated by using lower-level, less efficient approaches to …
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Car supplier and manufacturer connectivity issues
… tools, it can be effectively accomplished. Cognitive Maps have been commonly used in the past for this purpose but they lack a certain precision. Recently the use of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) has been proposed as an alternative for representing and analyzing complex systems that create …
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Ecological and Cognitive Influences on Orangutan Space Use
… However, little is currently known about the cognitive mechanisms that help primates achieve this efficiency in the wild. The presence habitual route networks in some primate species suggests they may navigate using route-based cognitive maps for encoding spatial information. However, little …
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A scoping review: What is known about the reasoning behind using paper versus screen resources and its impact on engagement and comprehension?
… key areas which emerged from this research were cognitive maps, comprehension, and preferences. Although there needs to be an awareness of cognitive maps and comprehension, the findings show no significant difference between reading from screen or paper resources. Therefore, consideration of an …
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Cultural Influences on Body Size Ideals Among African American Women in the Mississippi Delta
Results: One-on-one interviews yielded 25 cognitive maps. The maps contained a total of 169 concepts with 294 connections among them. The lowest number of variables identified on a participant’s map was 4 and the highest was 11. The lowest number of connections made on a participant’s map was 4 and …
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Inuit and scientific ways of knowing and seeing the Arctic landscape
… analysed by examining a series of thematic and cognitive 'maps', drawings and satellite imagery. The study focuses on how these forms of landscape representation and methods of navigation shape the way in whcih the Arctic is perceived. Centred on Inuit coastal villages in Nunavik (Northern …
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The use of cognitive mapping strategies for formulating Nursing diagnoses of a patient in pain
Tolman's cognitive mapping theory was used as the theoretical framework for this study. The theory postulates that individuals are continually learning and that information is stored in the mind in the form of cognitive maps. The assumptions underlying this study infer that nurses' cognitive maps …
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Assessing Spatial Orientation Skills in Athletes After Sustaining a Concussion: A Pilot Study
… hockey participants’ abilities to form and use cognitive maps. To assess cognitive map formation and use a modified version of the Spatial Configuration Task (m-SCT), a computerized tool that has been shown to quantitatively measure an individual’s ability to form and use cognitive maps (Burles, …
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Learning to Land: A Qualitative Examination of Pre-Flight and In-Flight Decision-Making Processes in Expert and Novice Aviators
… what some writers have referred to as <i>cognitive maps</i>. These mental guides appeared to be used effectively by experts in attempting to cope with problems associated with the scenarios. Novices also appeared to make use of cognitive maps in their decision-making processes. Their maps, …
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