cognitive map


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cognitive map

n
(Psychology) psychol a mental map of one's environment
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On the other hand, if the indetermination is introduced in a cognitive map as it is referred in [16], then this cognitive map is called a neutrosophic cognitive map, which is especially useful in the representation of causal knowledge [5, 17].
Figure 2 shows the cognitive map drawn for the data obtained in the fall semester of her second year.
Murray gives the example of eighteenth-century verses from Glen Dochart in Perthshire that specify 'the burial grounds of clan leaders, farming settlements and fertile meadows' but which would now barely 'register on any cognitive map of the locality' (p.
She details how connections made between known Anglo-Saxon places and geographical references outside Britain created both a cognitive map and, borrowing Derek Gregory's term, material for a self-reinforcing archive, a kind of "connect the dots" approach before wider use of maps created other spatial representations.
The results of these experiments support the idea that our brains create a cognitive map not just of our location in the environment, but of social mapping as well.
Recent advances give unprecedented insights into what is known about the cognitive map and the neural systems that facilitate navigation.
In chapter 4, Soukup--as flaneur ethnographer--introduces the core argument of his book: that the reason why Americans feel such affinity for their iPhones, iPads, and iPods is because Apple's mobile operating system (iOS) is, effectively, a variation of Frederic Jameson's (1991) "cognitive map." Omnipresent and omnipotent, mobile devices relocate and reorient the untethered postmodern subject via a standardized, programmatic design.
The proposed approach was demonstrated using an example of the creation of an individual cognitive map of Professor Alexander Archakov, a biochemist and one of the most famous Russian scientists in the field of life science.
As early as 1948, Tolman proposed the theoretical concept of a 'cognitive map' [6].
They fire--become active--when an animal (including the human animal) is in a specific location within their environment or there is a perceived change in "place." Each cell fires in response to one or more particular "place fields." The place cells activate in sequence as you move throughout your environment, creating a cognitive map.
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