Environment, cognition, and culture: Reconsidering the cognitive map

Heft, Harry

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2012.09.002

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“…Widlok showed that the Bushmen of Namibia do not navigate to get to geographical points but to accomplish at these points something materially and socially recognized (e.g., collecting a particular fruit). These observations accord with our results, giving substance to the hypothesis that an individual's knowledge about locations is not functionally independent of goal-directed action in a specific spatial and material context (Heft, 2013a;Widlok, 1997).…”

Section: The Physically and Materially Situated Dimension Of The Spatsupporting

confidence: 91%

“…Nonetheless, some authors have argued that the typical conception of cognition associated with wayfinding is too restrictive (e.g., Heft, 2013aHeft, , 2013b. To elaborate, from the traditional wayfinding perspective, locomotion is viewed as a behavioral consequence of algorithmic cognitive processes (Golledge, 1999); for example, Cornell, Heth, and Alberts (1994) proposed that a recognition-based algorithm is employed when reversing a recently walked route in unfamiliar environment.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Orienteering is popular in Scandinavian countries and to a lesser extent in North America and in Western Europe. The sport is featuring more frequently within school sports curricula in the west and its inclusion within these curricula is a rare example of the explicit teaching and learning of map-based navigation in western cultures (Heft, 2013a). Moreover, various countries teach orienteering within their armed forces (e.g., Malinowski & Gillespie, 2001).…”

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Navigation in outdoor environments as an embodied, social, cultural, and situated experience: An empirical study of orienteering

Mottet

Eccles

Saury

2016

Spatial Cognition & Computation

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. This study investigated novices' "lived experiences" of navigation within the sport of orienteering from an enactive and phenomenological approach. The objective was to characterize qualitatively elements of task-related situations that were meaningful for orienteers. The results showed that the participants continuously made judgments about the reliability of their estimations about whether they were on "the right route" on the course.When the participants judged that they were only approximately on the right route or were unable to locate themselves, elements of the situation other than map and terrain features became meaningful for them. These results demonstrate that, for novice orienteers, navigation activity must extend beyond navigation as logical, computational way-finding problem to include embodied, social, cultural and situated dimensions.

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Section: The Physically and Materially Situated Dimension Of The Spatsupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Navigation in outdoor environments as an embodied, social, cultural, and situated experience: An empirical study of orienteering

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Eccles

Saury

2016

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“…With this theoretical review and empirical test we follow the recommendations of Winkel et al (2009) and Heft (2013) for an ecological environmental psychology, one that was anticipated by Simmel. Specifically, we use a multi-level conceptual approach -considering both environmental-behavioral and attitudinal variables -to illuminate the transactional process whereby habitual experiences of time and space influence consciousness of time and space, and vice versa.…”

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Simmel's time-space theory: Implications for experience of modernization and place

Sullivan

Stewart

Diefendorf

2015

Journal of Environmental Psychology

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“…Also, Papageorgiou et al [13] in their research discussed the strength between concepts. In addition, some researchers used the fuzzy cognitive maps to solve the problem (i.e., [14][15][16]). The structure of the paper is as follows.…”

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An application of SODA methodology in student accommodation problems

Teimoury¹,

Gitinavard²,

Mousavi³

2014

Advanced Computational Techniques in Electromagnetics

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The one of the main problems that students have faced with are the accommodation problems. In this paper, we review problems that may occur in university systems. Also, we use strategic options development and analysis method (SODA) to represent the accommodation problems and to create an agreement between student and staff. This method can help us with achieving goals; because in the same situation, there are different viewpoints for various reasons. By plotting the cognitive maps of involved persons and aggregating all cognitive maps, this methodology reaches us to a consensus. The aggregated cognitive maps are called strategic maps. Finally, with the relational clustering the strategic map, we offer some suggestions to improve the accommodation system in each university.

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Environment, cognition, and culture: Reconsidering the cognitive map

Cited by 105 publications

References 36 publications

Navigation in outdoor environments as an embodied, social, cultural, and situated experience: An empirical study of orienteering

Navigation in outdoor environments as an embodied, social, cultural, and situated experience: An empirical study of orienteering

Simmel's time-space theory: Implications for experience of modernization and place

An application of SODA methodology in student accommodation problems

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