Spatial Cognition
Systematic Distortions in Cognitive Maps
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10124232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Haruo Okabayashi (University of Georgia, corresponding author), Shawn M Glynn (University of Georgia) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 111 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 271-279 |
| Publication date | 1984-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of General Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1309 • E-ISSN: 1940-0888 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00221309.1984.9921116 |
| PMID | 6512518 |
| OpenAlex | W2141595012 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 3 |
Stevens and Coupe demonstrated that people tend to regularize their cognitive maps by distorting the position of relatively small features (e.g., cities) to make them conform with the position of larger features (e.g., state boundaries). The present studies replicated those of Stevens and Coupe by asking college students to study prototypical maps with three kinds of boundaries: none, straight, and curved. They extended Stevens and Coupe's work by asking students to (a) physically reproduce the maps rather than simply answer questions about them, (b) recall the information not only immediately after study, but also one hour later and again two days later, and (c) reproduce the state boundaries as well as the city locations. Students who studied the curved boundary maps made more distortion errors than those who studied the straight boundary and the no-boundary maps. In addition, students' distortion errors were greatest when recall was delayed, and distortion errors in the recall of state boundaries were correlated with their distortion errors in the recall of city locations. In general, the findings provide additional evidence for the notion that memory for map information is schematic
Cognition · Cognitive map · Cognitive psychology · Geography · Spatial cognition · Augmented Reality Applications · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Neuroscience · Psychology · Spatial Cognition and Navigation
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2020 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |