Reginald G Golledge
Biographic Data
| ID | 3711013 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reginald G Golledge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reginald G |
| FAMILY NAME | Golledge |
| SIGNATURE | GOLLEDGE R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 286 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
A Conceptual Framework for Facilitating Geospatial Thinking
In this article we investigate whether a geospatial task-based framework can be conceptualized and developed to assist in structuring (in a grade-related context) a conceptual framework that could help build a vocabulary and scope and sequence structure for the geospatial thinking that makes the world and its activities legible to us. Our argument is presented in conceptual terms, but we offer preliminary evidence, based on work with local third-…
Matching Geospatial Concepts with Geographic Educational Needs
In this paper, we assume that learning to comprehend the geospatial environment would be significantly facilitated by developing a multi-level task ontology that identifies various levels and complexities of geospatial concepts. We suggest that, apart from four spatial 'primitives'- identity, location, magnitude, and space-time - all geospatial concepts involve 'inheritance' characteristics. The more complex and abstract the concept, the larger t…
Geospatial Concept Understanding and Recognition in G6–College Students: A Preliminary Argument for Minimal GIS
As geographic information systems (GIS) are increasingly implemented in K–12 classrooms, the risk becomes one of teaching “buttonlogy” or simply how to point and click to complete certain functions. Through the development of a geospatial concept lexicon and corresponding geospatial task ontology along with simple concept-based tasks completed by students in different grade levels, this research has illuminated grade-related differences in geospa…
Chorley, R.J. and Haggett, P., editors 1967: Models in geography. London: Methuen
Design Considerations for Haptic and Auditory Map Interfaces
Communicating spatial information to the blind and visually impaired using maps and graphics presents many difficulties. Past research has offered advice to cartographers on topics such as tactile areal, point, and line symbolization; on perceptual problems related to dense linear features on tactile maps; and on the relationship between categorical data, measurement theory, and tactile discrimination. With this previous work as a foundation, we …
Reflections on Recent Cognitive Behavioural Research with an Emphasis on Research in the United States of America
In this paper, I reflect on some of the more recent trends in cognitive behavioural research that includes work by geographers. In particular, I examine recent work on spatial decision‐making in the context of Intelligent Transportation Systems and Smart Environments, spatial cognition and human wayfinding behaviour, contributions to Geographic Information Science, and embellishing activity approaches that focus on episodic human behaviours. The …
The Nature of Geographic Knowledge
The nature of geographic knowledge today is very different from what it was fifty years ago. It has evolved from phenomenal (declarative) to intellectual (primed by cognitive demands). Surges of interest in systematic specialties and technical innovations in representation and analysis have changed the nature of geographic knowledge, advanced geographic vocabulary, defined and examined geographic concepts, and developed spatially explicit theorie…
Sex-Related Differences and Similarities in Geographic and Environmental Spatial Abilities
On average, males have reliably been found to outperform females on several traditional psychometric tests of spatial ability, especially those involving a component of mental rotation. The evidence is much less clear and complete with respect to performance on larger-scale and more ecologically valid tasks generally associated with geographic investigation, such as those involved in wayfinding, map use, and place learning. In this study, a commu…
Wayfinding Behavior: Cognitive Mapping and Other Spatial Processes
The metaphor of a "cognitive map" has attracted wide interest since it was first proposed in the late 1940s. Researchers from fields as diverse as psychology, geography, and urban planning have explored how humans process and use spatial information, often with a view to explaining why people make way-finding errors or what makes one person a better navigator than another. But there has also been an intense debate among biologists over whether an…
Understanding spatial concepts at the geographic scale without the use of vision
In this article we review the literature that has sought to determine the spatial understanding of people with visual impairments or blindness. In particular, we examine the arguments surrounding whether people with visual impairments or blindness can understand geographic relationships such as distance, configuration and hierarchy. At present, the conclusions of researchers can be divided into three camps. One group suggests that vision is the s…
On Reassembling One's Life: Overcoming Disability in the Academic Environment
In this paper I discuss my process of academic rehabilitation after suffering severe disruption after the (sudden) onset of severe vision impairment (legal blindness). The paper is somewhat anecdotal, I give examples of specially designed assistive technologies that helped rehabilitation in various phases of academic teaching, research, student advising, and paper presentation at academic conferences. A particular view on the nature of the concep…
Spatial Behavior: A Geographic Perspective
A Response to Gleeson and Imrie
read the same paper that I wrote. Their interpretations of parts of my writing leaves me mystified at how they can infer meanings so different from those that I believed I had expressed. Imrie (1996, 398) freely admits that he is bent on 'reconstructing some of Golledge's arguments'. Unfortunately, many of his 'reconstructions' are pure misrepresentation, with little relation to the original statements or their meanings. As a case in point, consi…
Geographical theories
The emergence of geographical theory was an inevitable product of the desire to systematize existing geographic knowledge and to use that systematized base to explore new areas of knowledge. Although the usefulness of theory and predictive models in geography is by now a matter of record, it was not always the case. The usefulness and need for theories was often disputed, despite the oft-repeated argument that theories of location explained the l…
Computational Process Modeling of Household Travel Decisions Using a Geographical Information System
A Response to Ruth Butler
Geography and the Disabled: A Survey with Special Reference to Vision Impaired and Blind Populations
Reginald G. Golledge, Geography and the Disabled: A Survey with Special Reference to Vision Impaired and Blind Populations, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 18, No. 1 (1993), pp. 63-85
Gender-related differences in spatial abilities
Place recognition and wayfinding: Making sense of space
Spatial Knowledge Acquisition by Children: Route Learning and Relational Distances
Our purpose is to examine spatial knowledge acquisition via route learning processes. To gain as much control as possible, yet study learning in actual environments, we conducted field experiments using an unfamiliar suburban neighborhood and a subject population of 9- to 12-year-old children whose activity spaces are most highly oriented to the neighborhood level. In addition to multipletrial route learning, we gave subjects a battery of tasks i…
Applications of behavioural research on spatial problems II: Preference and choice
Applications of behavioural research on spatial problems I: Cognition
In this, the first of a two-part sequence, we have first discussed some critical features of early behavioural research in geography, then traced developments following from this early research to the current period. We emphasized the early applied nature of much of this research. We have also shown how progress in the second period of growth (the 1970s) had to emphasize conceptual and theoretical aspects more than the applied. This was because f…
A Ground for Common Search
Teaching behavioural geography
This paper discusses the teaching of the analytical approach to behavioural geography. After examining the relationship between teaching and research in this area of inquiry, the paper proceeds to outline some fundamental concepts and principles, concentrating specifically on models of man, models of environment, perception and cognition, information diffusion and adoption, space preferences and time‐path analysis. Comments are then made as to ho…
Combinatorial Procedures for the Analysis of Alterante Models: An Example From Interregional Migration
Geography and the Disabled: A Survey with Special Reference to Vision Impaired and Blind Populations
Reginald G. Golledge, Geography and the Disabled: A Survey with Special Reference to Vision Impaired and Blind Populations, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 18, No. 1 (1993), pp. 63-85
Applications of behavioural research on spatial problems I: Cognition
In this, the first of a two-part sequence, we have first discussed some critical features of early behavioural research in geography, then traced developments following from this early research to the current period. We emphasized the early applied nature of much of this research. We have also shown how progress in the second period of growth (the 1970s) had to emphasize conceptual and theoretical aspects more than the applied. This was because f…
The Nature of Geographic Knowledge
The nature of geographic knowledge today is very different from what it was fifty years ago. It has evolved from phenomenal (declarative) to intellectual (primed by cognitive demands). Surges of interest in systematic specialties and technical innovations in representation and analysis have changed the nature of geographic knowledge, advanced geographic vocabulary, defined and examined geographic concepts, and developed spatially explicit theorie…
Applications of behavioural research on spatial problems II: Preference and choice
A Response to Gleeson and Imrie
read the same paper that I wrote. Their interpretations of parts of my writing leaves me mystified at how they can infer meanings so different from those that I believed I had expressed. Imrie (1996, 398) freely admits that he is bent on 'reconstructing some of Golledge's arguments'. Unfortunately, many of his 'reconstructions' are pure misrepresentation, with little relation to the original statements or their meanings. As a case in point, consi…
Understanding spatial concepts at the geographic scale without the use of vision
In this article we review the literature that has sought to determine the spatial understanding of people with visual impairments or blindness. In particular, we examine the arguments surrounding whether people with visual impairments or blindness can understand geographic relationships such as distance, configuration and hierarchy. At present, the conclusions of researchers can be divided into three camps. One group suggests that vision is the s…
On Reassembling One's Life: Overcoming Disability in the Academic Environment
In this paper I discuss my process of academic rehabilitation after suffering severe disruption after the (sudden) onset of severe vision impairment (legal blindness). The paper is somewhat anecdotal, I give examples of specially designed assistive technologies that helped rehabilitation in various phases of academic teaching, research, student advising, and paper presentation at academic conferences. A particular view on the nature of the concep…
Sex-Related Differences and Similarities in Geographic and Environmental Spatial Abilities
On average, males have reliably been found to outperform females on several traditional psychometric tests of spatial ability, especially those involving a component of mental rotation. The evidence is much less clear and complete with respect to performance on larger-scale and more ecologically valid tasks generally associated with geographic investigation, such as those involved in wayfinding, map use, and place learning. In this study, a commu…
Behavioural Problems in Geography: A Symposium
Migration, Functional Distance, and the Urban Hierarchy
origin and destination [13, pp. 49-50]. In general, the net effect of these properties may be viewed in terms of the functional distance between any two places (or nodes). If each node's (n) properties are mapped in an n-dimensional space, it is possible to compute a measure of distance separating any two nodes, termed functional distance, such that it reflects the net effect of nodal properties upon their propensity to interact [6]. In this cont…
Formulation and Test of a Normative Model for the Spatial Allocation of Grocery Expenditures by a Dispersed Population
In this study a model is developed and tested to describe the selection of major grocery purchase towns by a dispersed population. The information used was from a questionnaire taken to the approximately 600 households which comprised an areally stratified random sample of the Iowa dispersed population in 1960. The model uses the concept, developed in the work, of an indifference surface of town attractiveness indices to predict consumer town sel…
Gender-related differences in spatial abilities
Place recognition and wayfinding: Making sense of space
Analytic Research, Positivism, and Behavioral Geography
Although we acknowledge the debt that mainstream behavioral geography owes to positivism, our central argument here is that much of that research tradition has now transcended its positivist roots and that we should preserve only those virtues of analytic discourse that appear to be of enduring value. In this paper we examine the strengths and weaknesses of analytic behavioral research and compare the perspective of this research with the viewpoi…
On Laws in Geography
Although many geographers have discussed philosophical problems related to "explanation''and "theories''in geography, few have attempted to examine the question of the types of laws and their occurrence in the discipline. It is suggested here that at least five different types of laws may be formulated by geographers, such as Cross-Section, Equilibrium, Historical, Developmental, and Statistical. By following principles of logical reasoning about…
Representing, Interpreting, and Using Cognized Environments
Design Considerations for Haptic and Auditory Map Interfaces
Communicating spatial information to the blind and visually impaired using maps and graphics presents many difficulties. Past research has offered advice to cartographers on topics such as tactile areal, point, and line symbolization; on perceptual problems related to dense linear features on tactile maps; and on the relationship between categorical data, measurement theory, and tactile discrimination. With this previous work as a foundation, we …
Search, Learning, and the Market Decision Process
Geospatial Concept Understanding and Recognition in G6–College Students: A Preliminary Argument for Minimal GIS
As geographic information systems (GIS) are increasingly implemented in K–12 classrooms, the risk becomes one of teaching “buttonlogy” or simply how to point and click to complete certain functions. Through the development of a geospatial concept lexicon and corresponding geospatial task ontology along with simple concept-based tasks completed by students in different grade levels, this research has illuminated grade-related differences in geospa…
A Response to Ruth Butler
On the Subjective Partitioning of Space
This paper comments on some fundamental concerns associated with the subjective partitioning of space. In particular, we discuss some basic assumptions and epistemological positions that are both implicitly and explicitly assumed in the partitioning process. A brief discussion of scale follows to make the point that the epistemological assumptions involved in the transitions from personal to cognitive space have not always been fully appreciated …
Representing, interpreting, and using cognized environments
A Conceptual Framework for Facilitating Geospatial Thinking
In this article we investigate whether a geospatial task-based framework can be conceptualized and developed to assist in structuring (in a grade-related context) a conceptual framework that could help build a vocabulary and scope and sequence structure for the geospatial thinking that makes the world and its activities legible to us. Our argument is presented in conceptual terms, but we offer preliminary evidence, based on work with local third-…
Matching Geospatial Concepts with Geographic Educational Needs
In this paper, we assume that learning to comprehend the geospatial environment would be significantly facilitated by developing a multi-level task ontology that identifies various levels and complexities of geospatial concepts. We suggest that, apart from four spatial 'primitives'- identity, location, magnitude, and space-time - all geospatial concepts involve 'inheritance' characteristics. The more complex and abstract the concept, the larger t…
Computational Process Modeling of Household Travel Decisions Using a Geographical Information System
Search, Learning, and the Market Decision Process
Formulation and Test of a Normative Model for the Spatial Allocation of Grocery Expenditures by a Dispersed Population
In this study a model is developed and tested to describe the selection of major grocery purchase towns by a dispersed population. The information used was from a questionnaire taken to the approximately 600 households which comprised an areally stratified random sample of the Iowa dispersed population in 1960. The model uses the concept, developed in the work, of an indifference surface of town attractiveness indices to predict consumer town sel…
On Laws in Geography
Although many geographers have discussed philosophical problems related to "explanation''and "theories''in geography, few have attempted to examine the question of the types of laws and their occurrence in the discipline. It is suggested here that at least five different types of laws may be formulated by geographers, such as Cross-Section, Equilibrium, Historical, Developmental, and Statistical. By following principles of logical reasoning about…
Migration, Functional Distance, and the Urban Hierarchy
origin and destination [13, pp. 49-50]. In general, the net effect of these properties may be viewed in terms of the functional distance between any two places (or nodes). If each node's (n) properties are mapped in an n-dimensional space, it is possible to compute a measure of distance separating any two nodes, termed functional distance, such that it reflects the net effect of nodal properties upon their propensity to interact [6]. In this cont…
Behavioural Problems in Geography: A Symposium
Some Issues Related to the Search for Geographical Knowledge
An Introduction to Scientific Reasoning in Geography
Representing, Interpreting, and Using Cognized Environments
Representing, interpreting, and using cognized environments
An experimental design for assessing the spatial competence of mildly retarded populations
The Development of Geographical Analysis
The comparison of related data sets: Examples from multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis
The Comparison of Related Data Sets: Examples From Multidimensional Scaling and Cluster Analysis
Analysis of variance procedures based on a proximity measure between subjects
Analysis of variance procedures based on a proximity measure between subjects
On the Subjective Partitioning of Space
This paper comments on some fundamental concerns associated with the subjective partitioning of space. In particular, we discuss some basic assumptions and epistemological positions that are both implicitly and explicitly assumed in the partitioning process. A brief discussion of scale follows to make the point that the epistemological assumptions involved in the transitions from personal to cognitive space have not always been fully appreciated …
Combinatorial Procedures for the Analysis of Alterante Models: An Example From Interregional Migration
Combinatorial procedures for the analysis of alternate models: An example from interregional migration
Analytic Research, Positivism, and Behavioral Geography
Although we acknowledge the debt that mainstream behavioral geography owes to positivism, our central argument here is that much of that research tradition has now transcended its positivist roots and that we should preserve only those virtues of analytic discourse that appear to be of enduring value. In this paper we examine the strengths and weaknesses of analytic behavioral research and compare the perspective of this research with the viewpoi…
Exploring Entrepreneurial Cognitions of Retail Environments
Much of the research in marketing geography has focused on analyzing consumers' perceptions and cognitions of shopping centers. Relatively few studies, however, have examined the role of cognition from the entrepreneurial perspective. This paper investigates the use of multidimensional analytical techniques for evaluating how entrepreneurs cognize their retail environments. Using data collected from four retail centers in the state of Victoria, A…
Behavioral Problems in Geography Revisited
Teaching behavioural geography
This paper discusses the teaching of the analytical approach to behavioural geography. After examining the relationship between teaching and research in this area of inquiry, the paper proceeds to outline some fundamental concepts and principles, concentrating specifically on models of man, models of environment, perception and cognition, information diffusion and adoption, space preferences and time‐path analysis. Comments are then made as to ho…
A Ground for Common Search
Applications of behavioural research on spatial problems II: Preference and choice
Applications of behavioural research on spatial problems I: Cognition
In this, the first of a two-part sequence, we have first discussed some critical features of early behavioural research in geography, then traced developments following from this early research to the current period. We emphasized the early applied nature of much of this research. We have also shown how progress in the second period of growth (the 1970s) had to emphasize conceptual and theoretical aspects more than the applied. This was because f…
Computer Science (24 works) · Geography (23 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Spatial Cognition and Navigation (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Geographic Information Systems Studies (13 works) · Geography Education and Pedagogy (10 works) · Mathematics (10 works) · Cognition (8 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (8 works)