The Appropriateness of Using Various Minkowskian Metrics for Representing Cognitive Configurations

G D Richardson
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G D Richardson: Department of Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA

Environment and Planning A, 1981, vol. 13, issue 4, 475-485

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.

Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1068/a130475

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