The Appropriateness of Using Various Minkowskian Metrics for Representing Cognitive Configurations
- 1 April 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
- Vol. 13 (4) , 475-485
- https://doi.org/10.1068/a130475
Abstract
Cognitive mapping has been a rapidly growing area of research concerned with how cognitive information about environments is represented, interpreted, and used. One area of research has been concerned with what geometry best represents cognitive spatial information. This paper further pursues this topic by examining which of three Minkowskian metrics (city-block, Euclidean, dominance) is most appropriate for representing cognitive configurations.Keywords
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