Descriptions and depictions of environments
Memory & CognitionPublished 1 September 1992Open access
Holly A. Taylor, Barbara Tversky
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Order of drawing or describing landmarks revealed the mental organization of environments, revealing hierarchical structures based on spatial and functional features of the environments and on conventions for sequencing the landmarks.
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Subjects studied maps with the expectation that they would draw or describe them from memory. In fact, subjects did both. Order of drawing or describing landmarks revealed the mental organization of environments. Organization was quite similar across maps and descriptions of the same environments, revealing hierarchical structures based on spatial and functional features of the environments and on conventions for sequencing the landmarks.
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