EVIDENCE OF A RESPONSE-BIAS EXPLANATION OF NONEUCLIDEAN COGNITIVE MAPS* |
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| Authors: | Tommy Gärling Anders Böök Erik Lindberg Constantino Arce |
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| Institution: | 1. TOMMY GÄRLING is Associate Professor of Psychology and Planning and Director of the Transportation Research Unit at University of Umeå, S-90187 Umeå, Sweden. His primary interests include behavioral modeling in transportation and mobility research.;2. ANDERS BÖÖK is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at University of Umeå. His interests include basic research on spatial perception and cognition.;3. ERIK LINDBERG An officer at the Swedish Institute of Road and Traffic Research.;4. CONSTANTINO ARCE is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He is interested in the applications of multidimensional scaling methods. |
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| Abstract: | Two groups of subjects with varying amounts of experience with the city in which they lived judged from memory distances between familiar locations. The distance judgments were processed by a multidimensional scaling algorithm (MULTISCALE) that estimates the parameters of a power function transformation of the response scale and the coordinates of the locations in k-dimensional euclidean space. The results for both subject groups suggested that inaccuracies of distance cognition do not reflect the noneuclidean nature of urban cognitive maps but are caused by response bias. |
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| Keywords: | spatial behavior urban cognitive maps euclidean-noneuclidean geometry distance judgments response bias |
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