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Direct linkFriedman, Alinda; Montello, Daniel R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
The authors examined whether absolute and relative judgments about global-scale locations and distances were generated from common representations. At the end of a 10-week class on the regional geography of the United States, participants estimated the latitudes of 16 North American cities and all possible pairwise distances between them. Although…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, Multidimensional Scaling, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Processes
