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Spatial Knowledge

Spatial Knowledge
• Spatial representation
• Mental maps - people can navigate with or without maps but learning has been associated with maps such as learning a location by associating it with a landmark
o Large-scale space - map of country, province
o Small-scale space

Representations
• Representations (format that things in external environment are remembered or dealt with in a cognitive system) and referents (outside world)
o How things “out there� are represented in the mind?
• Analog (represents things that are directly related to the outside world) vs. propositional
• An internal (i.e. mental) model of the outside world
o It does not need to resemble the object
o Just preserve the functional operations
o Example: a map is not an exact copy of the outside world (really good maps still leave some information out)

Analog Representations (visuospatial)
• Mimics the character of the real thing
o Vinyl records (analog because......

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