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| THE PROGRESS OF GEOGRAPHICAL STUDY ON THE SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF COGNITIVE MAP |
| WANG Mao-jun1, CHAI Yan-wei2, GAO Yi-cheng1 |
1. College of Resource & Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100037, China;
2. Department of City and Region Planning, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China |
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Abstract A cognitive map is the complete expression of environment image components, distance between images and direction information. It synthetically reflects the interaction between residents and cites. A Cognitive map is one of the core subjects in Behavior Geography. Along with the rising of Behavior Geography recently, the study of cognitive map presents a favorable tendency. And it becomes a crossed research subject of Psychics, Cognition science, and GIS. Based on the spatial analysis of cognitive map, this article discusses scratch map analysis, cognitive map distortion, toponym cognition/cognition distance/urban structure cognition, the property of residents in cognition, and brings up the direction to analysis in China.
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Received: 13 March 2006
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2007, Vol. 22 
