TY - CHAP
T1 - Systematic distortions in cognitive maps
T2 - The North American West Coast vs. the (West) coast of Israel
AU - Portugali, Juval
AU - Omer, Itzhak
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - This article suggests a second thought on two papers published in Cognitive psychology in 1978 and 1981. Both articles deal with systematic distortions in cognitive mapping and both are based on experiments conducted along the North American West Coast. The first, by Stevens and Coupe, deals with distortions due to hierarchical organization while the second, by Tversky, with distortions due to rotation. Our second thought follows a set empirical results from a study conducted along the (West) coast of Israel. These results suggest that the experiments, on the basis of which the above two forms of systematic distortions were determined, could have resulted from another form of systematic distortion that we term the edge effect.
AB - This article suggests a second thought on two papers published in Cognitive psychology in 1978 and 1981. Both articles deal with systematic distortions in cognitive mapping and both are based on experiments conducted along the North American West Coast. The first, by Stevens and Coupe, deals with distortions due to hierarchical organization while the second, by Tversky, with distortions due to rotation. Our second thought follows a set empirical results from a study conducted along the (West) coast of Israel. These results suggest that the experiments, on the basis of which the above two forms of systematic distortions were determined, could have resulted from another form of systematic distortion that we term the edge effect.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=21144453535&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-39923-0_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-39923-0_7
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AN - SCOPUS:21144453535
SN - 3540201483
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 93
EP - 100
BT - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
A2 - Kuhn, Werner
A2 - Worboys, Michael
A2 - Timpf, Sabine
PB - Springer Verlag
ER -