Comparison of Quantitative Point Symbols / the Cognitive Process

Dados Bibliográficos

ID14701907
AutoresRobert Lloyd (0000-0002-5771-9900, University of South Carolina / Columbia / South Carolina, autor correspondente), THEODORE STEINKE
Ano1985
Volume22
Fascículo1
Páginas59-77
Data de publicação1985-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0317-7173 • E-ISSN: 1911-9925
EditoraUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/8186-2tu2-m785-5581
OpenAlexW1997848287
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3

Experiments were conducted to compare the cognitive processes used to compare pairs of quantitative point symbols using perception or memory and in or out of a map context. Results indicated that the differences in the sizes of the symbols being compared significantly influenced decision times for all of the experimental situations considered. The decision times for subjects who visually compared symbols on a map were also significantly influenced by the familiarity of the symbol's location. Most subjects who studied a map containing a distribution of quantitative point symbols appeared to selectively code only symbol size information into memory as an ordered list rather than coding a map image that was an analog of the cartographic map

Coding (social sciences · Cognition · Cognitive map · Cognitive psychology · Context (archaeology · Decision process · Geography · Perception · Point (geometry · Statistics · Symbol (formal · Computer Science · Mathematics · Psychology · Spatial Cognition and Navigation · Artificial Intelligence