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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Mental Maps"”.
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Spatial signatures and mental maps: Using offenders’ activity locations to enhance geographic profiling for crime investigations
… of a crime location thus reflects the ‘mental map’ of the offender: the locations they are familiar with from their everyday activities, such as where they live, work, go to school or visit family and friends. Previous empirical research suggests that people are more likely to commit …
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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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Perceptions of Parisian French: From Language Attitudes to Speech Perception
… evidence that Parisians possess fine-grained mental maps that geographically represent linguistic prestige. These maps were shown to be influenced much more by cities' reputations than by perceptions of their residential desirability. Subjects' mental maps of the Parisian region were indicated …
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The Image of the Tunnels: Mapping Perception of the MIT Underground
… elements by which residents of a space create mental maps of their neighborhood and use these to define their spatial perception and navigation: paths, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks. The MIT Tunnels are spaces utilized daily for a myriad of purposes: to reach labs and offices, to avoid …
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Participatory GIS for growth management in the Cheat Lake planning district of Monongalia County, West Virginia
… information, such as community narratives, mental maps, and geo-referenced photographs are collected using qualitative research methods and combined with existing geo-spatial information in order to shape future political discussions about land use planning in the case study area.
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Tourism and the development of 'creative' urban areas: evidence from four non-central areas in London
… based on face-to-face interviews and sketched mental maps was deemed the most appropriate to attain the research aims. A total of 132 face-to-face interviews with visitors were conducted in the four case studies. In addition, maps sketched by visitors provided a useful and new approach to the …
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The Social Construction of a Public/Private Neighborhood: Examining Neighbor Interaction and Neighborhood Meaning in a New Orleans Mixed-Income Development
… collected through 48 interviews, observation, mental maps, and casual encounters with residents living in the predominantly African American redeveloped St. Thomas Housing Development – renamed River Garden. I analyzed residents’ neighboring processes and how they socially constructed space, …
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The Journey to the Underworld: Topography, Landscape, and Divine Inhabitants of the Roman Hades
… was visualized, outlining the possible mental maps of the chthonic realm that constituted the main reference for the literary works and funerary monuments that were created in Rome and Ostia between the end of the first century BCE and the end of the third century CE. While we have no …
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The effect of borders on the linguistic production and perception of regional identity in Louisville, Kentucky
… an examination of language attitude surveys, mental maps, focus group interviews, and production data, I show that identity alignments in borderlands are neither simple nor straightforward. Identity at the border is fluid, complex, and dynamic; speakers constantly negotiate and contest their …
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Challenges and opportunities in the reuse of abandoned urban space.
… together with sites observation utilising mental maps, were the main methods used to investigate specific abandoned spaces in Aberdeen. Furthermore, through three urban workshops delivered in collaboration with Aberdeen City Council, Robert Gordon University, International College RGU and …
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Fear No Evil: Making Sense of Intersectionality and Fear of Crime Amongst Blacks in High Crime Neighborhoods
… feeling afraid. Instead, both men and women use mental maps of specific spaces and people in those spaces to identify some areas as dangers and others as safe. Additionally religion linked with intersecting individual factors, played an enormous role in residents’ fear of crime responses. The …
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Spatial Mapping in Wild White -Faced Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus Capucinus)
… memory, and the ability of monkeys to form mental maps of the location and distribution of feeding and resting sites across a forested landscape. Primates exploit home ranges that vary on spatial scales ranging from less than one hectare to several hundred hectares. However, little is known …
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A Practice-Based Exploration of Natural Environment Design in Computer & Video Games : Volume 2
… Assessments amongst other elements of environmental design. ShadowMoss Island is a practice-based exploration of how virtual natural environmental design can incorporate elements from Environmental Psychology and Geology, as well as personal reflections and observational analysis based on a …
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A practice-based exploration of natural environment design in computer & video games : volume 1
… Assessments amongst other elements of environmental design. ShadowMoss Island is a practice-based exploration of how virtual natural environmental design can incorporate elements from Environmental Psychology and Geology, as well as personal reflections and observational analysis based on a …
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The planning and design of mental health treatment centres
… developed as a planning and design reference for mental health treatment centres. This text is intended to assist planners, designers, and health practitioners to optimize patient health and comfort by providing suitable environments to facilitate care and treatment. This thesis examines and …
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Building a Continent: The Idea of Latin American Architecture in the Early Postwar
… modern--that created both physical spaces and mental maps of postwar modernity giving a transnational image of the Western World.
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Place Perception, Cognitive Maps, and Mass Media: The Interrelationship Between Visual Popular Culture and Regional Mental Mapping
… what is their link to place perception? How are mental constructs of regions related to cultural stereotypes? How have popular culture and mass media affected stereotypes?
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AVID demonstration and highly certified school principals and leaders: the critical decisions of those who lead the reform of their schools
… using a small whiteboard to display visual or mental maps that represent their thoughts. Peers prod one another along by asking questions until the student presenting the problem finds clarity (AVID, 2018). The teacher remains in the background as students take the lead. AVID is one of many …