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Representing Spatial Structure through Maps and Language: Lord of the Rings Encodes the Spatial Structure of Middle Earth
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Louwerse, Max M.; Benesh, Nick – Cognitive Science, 2012
Spatial mental representations can be derived from linguistic and non-linguistic sources of information. This study tested whether these representations could be formed from statistical linguistic frequencies of city names, and to what extent participants differed in their performance when they estimated spatial locations from language or maps. In…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Maps, Language Processing, Cognitive Mapping