Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: How people represent space is a central issue in spatial cognition research and has profound implications on human performance in spatial tasks.In this article, we describe a theory of human spatial representations, which claims that space is represented in the brain and in the mind not once but multiple times, each being a map of salience with a distinctive frame of reference, and that human performance is determined by the interaction among multiple such representations.An experiment is reported to test the theory's claim on salience based hierarchical spatial representations.
Authors: Hongbin Wang, Yanlong Sun
Institution: Texas Medical Center
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Award: G8876996369
OpenAlex ID: W2767645018