How Do Remote Southern Hemisphere Residents Perceive the World? Mental Maps Drawn by East Timorese and Mozambican Islanders

Madaleno, Isabel María

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“…Relevant geographical landmarks (such as rivers and mountains) can be used as global viewer-independent frames [27,56]. The geographical positions of different countries and the language used [57][58][59] also influence the features of environment representations. For instance, Madaleno [57] analyzed environment representations in people living in countries in the southern hemisphere, and showed that some of them formed south-up mental maps.…”

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“…The geographical positions of different countries and the language used [57][58][59] also influence the features of environment representations. For instance, Madaleno [57] analyzed environment representations in people living in countries in the southern hemisphere, and showed that some of them formed south-up mental maps. The use of a language based on a geocentric frame (the equivalent of geographical directions), typical of certain populations living in countries with a particular topography (such as islands), and characteristic landmarks (such as mountains or volcanoes), also shapes the proprieties of people's environment representations (which are not necessarily cardinally north-up oriented; [58,59]).…”

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Learning a Path from Real Navigation: The Advantage of Initial View, Cardinal North and Visuo-Spatial Ability

Muffato

Meneghetti

2020

Brain Sciences

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Background: Spatial cognition research strives to maximize conditions favoring environment representation. This study examined how initial (egocentric) navigation headings interact with allocentric references in terms of world-based information (such as cardinal points) in forming environment representations. The role of individual visuo-spatial factors was also examined. Method: Ninety-one undergraduates took an unfamiliar path in two learning conditions, 46 walked from cardinal south to north (SN learning), and 45 walked from cardinal north to south (NS learning). Path recall was tested with SN and NS pointing tasks. Perspective-taking ability and self-reported sense of direction were also assessed. Results: Linear models showed a better performance for SN learning and SN pointing than for NS learning and NS pointing. The learning condition x pointing interaction proved SN pointing more accurate than NS pointing after SN learning, while SN and NS pointing accuracy was similar after NS learning. Perspective-taking ability supported pointing accuracy. Conclusions: These results indicate that initial heading aligned with cardinal north prompt a north-oriented representation. No clear orientation of the representation emerges when the initial heading is aligned with cardinal south. Environment representations are supported by individual perspective-taking ability. These findings offer new insight on the environmental and individual factors facilitating environment representations acquired from navigation.

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Learning a Path from Real Navigation: The Advantage of Initial View, Cardinal North and Visuo-Spatial Ability

Muffato

Meneghetti

2020

Brain Sciences

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“…For example, mental mapping endeavors allow researchers to acknowledge cognitive perceptions of globalisation (e.g. Madaleno, ), relative locations (e.g. Gould and White, ), and everyday routes (e.g.…”

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Layers of the Landscape: Representations and Perceptions of an Ordinary (Shared) Sports Landscape in a Haitian and Dominican Community

Wise

2014

Geographical Research

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Over the last decade, much research has assessed sport in relation to geographical perspectives of place, landscape, and identity. Using multiple qualitative methods, including mental maps, interviews and conversations, and participant observation, this inductive study attempts to better understand local perceptions of an everyday landscape. This work was conducted in Villa Ascension, a rural community in the Dominican Republic consisting of Haitian and Dominican residents. Football is a strong component of Haitian identity, and baseball is likewise important to Dominicans. Currently, the community has one site where two sports are actively played. Given the community's heterogeneous ethnic composition, Villa Ascension's sports landscape is recognised as having multiple layers of meaning. Knowledge produced in this case study revealed the emergent themes of perceived interpretations of ordinary landscapes, the forging of boundaries, communal relationships and support, and hazards and modification of limited spaces for play. The landscape being a layered one with multiple representations of place and identity, the Haitians' broader perceptions suggest that they view the site as a place of primary importance. Alternatively, the Dominicans are attempting to forge and maintain their sense of sporting identity in the landscape.

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“…1 Most of these preparations are used against chronic health problems and mild diseases by the poor residents in the urban realm who do not possess financial resources to buy conventional drugs in the pharmacies. My previous research has focussed on Brazil, which was also a former Portuguese territory and other Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Peru, Costa Rica, Uruguay, and Mexico), where the Spanish colonisation left its imprint, under the framework of the theory of the three globalisations, that claims the Renaissance expansion of both Iberian peoples to have been the first globalisation process led in History.…”

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Traditional Medicinal Knowledge in India and Malaysia

Madaleno¹

2015

Phcog Commn.

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Chronic diseases like diabetes, arthritis, rheumatism, asthma can be treated using ointments, infusions and concoctions. In Asia many endemic, native and exotic plant species have been consumed or applied for centuries, constituting a repository of knowledge reported in old manuscripts or transmitted by traditional healers, wild species collectors and urban gardeners. This paper presents information about 338 different vegetable species gathered in two Indian settlements -Goa and Kochi -in Malacca, Malaysia, and on the subject of their consumption both as food and as medicine. The aim of the Portuguese Tropical Institute is to provide a catalogue of medicinal flora existent in urban gardens that might improve the health of the less wealthy as well as those who have faith in natural treatments and alternative medicines.

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How Do Remote Southern Hemisphere Residents Perceive the World? Mental Maps Drawn by East Timorese and Mozambican Islanders

Cited by 12 publications

References 31 publications

Learning a Path from Real Navigation: The Advantage of Initial View, Cardinal North and Visuo-Spatial Ability

Learning a Path from Real Navigation: The Advantage of Initial View, Cardinal North and Visuo-Spatial Ability

Layers of the Landscape: Representations and Perceptions of an Ordinary (Shared) Sports Landscape in a Haitian and Dominican Community

Traditional Medicinal Knowledge in India and Malaysia

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