Toward a Cognitive Spatial Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4041199 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Webber (0000-0002-7697-3453), M J Webber, Richard Symanski, James Root, James C Root (0000-0001-7332-6165) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 100 |
| Publication date | 1975-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/143067 |
| OpenAlex | W2315146152 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 4 |
Our knowledge of the external world impinges upon our actions, and our acts affect our knowledge. The relationship between behavior and knowledge is mutual or circular, and exceedingly complex. In this paper we simplify and compartmentalize this mutual relationship and focus particularly on the elementary observation that where one lives, where one travels, and what one does affects what one knows of and understands about the world. In what way can we account for this observation? Models have been constructed which attempt to explain how an individual acquires information relevant to behavior and how that information affects behavior. Thus, Webber [14, pp. 110-14] provides normative models of the manner in which a profit maximizing firm collects the information basic to decisions about plant location; Burnett [2, 3] models the choice of shops by people who are gradually acquiring information about a retail system; Golledge and Brown [6] have indicated some of the uses of decision theory in examining market behavior; and King and Golledge [8] have illustrated some applications of Bayesian decision theory to such situations. In all these cases, the information gathered is relevant to the way in which the individual behaves-behavior changes as the amount and quality of available information increases. Here we focus attention on behavior, and
Cognition · Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis · Computer Science · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Environmental Science · Neuroscience · Psychology · Statistical Mechanics and Entropy
Cognitive maps
Urban Information and Preference Surfaces
Applications of behavioural research on spatial problems I
Periodic market-places and periodic marketing
A conceptual framework for analysing migration behaviour in the developed world
Toward Dynamic Models of Traveller Behavior and Point Patterns of Traveller Origins
Consumer Behavior after Migration
Marketplace Trade in Latin America
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 1974 - 1994 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |