- Theories of human perception, cognition, and memory and their ability to model spatial knowledge acquisition (e.g., Marr on vision, Piaget on cognitive development) - Types of mental representations (i.e., analogue, propositional, procedural) - The role of metaphors and image schemata in our understanding of geographic phenomena and geographic tasks - From concepts to data (i.e., data, information, knowledge, and wisdom; transformation of a conceptual model of information for a particular task into a data model; limitations of various information stores (the mind, computers) and means (maps, graphics, and text) for representing geographic information) - Difference between real phenomena, conceptual models, and GIS data representations thereof connections with cartography and maps
Explain the role of metaphors and image schemata in our understanding of geographic phenomena and geographic tasks.
In progress (GI-N2K)