Salience Based Hierarchical Spatial Representations
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چکیده
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.
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