cognitive map

collocation in English

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cognitive
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈkɒɡ.nə.tɪv/us
/ˈkɑːɡ.nə.t̬ɪv/
connected with thinking or conscious ...
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map
noun[C]
uk
/mæp/us
/mæp/
a drawing of the earth's surface, or part of that surface, showing the shape and position of different countries, political borders, natural features such as rivers and mountains, and artificial features such as roads ...
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An example of the primacy of place of origin is thecognitivemapof a camp.
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Connecting thiscognitivemapto the archaeological record continues to engage and challenge us in our work.
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There is no exact description of how these attributes are related to each other or of how thecognitivemapleads to the agent's actions.
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The central form of protest is no longer political but aesthetic - the capacity to apprehend differently, to create a differentcognitivemap.
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The methodology does not provide extensions to capture thecognitivemapof the agent (individual/static structure), or the structural organisation of the agents (system/static structure).
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However, a realcognitivemapis meant to include more than sequence-related knowledge; it actually implies the transformation of such knowledge into some more integrated representation.
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This model describes specifically how all of the concepts that are included in the agent'scognitivemapinteract and affect each other and the agent's planning mechanism.
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It focuses on system-level aspects (mainly on the collective behaviour of agents), and does not attend to designing concerns related to the agent's internalcognitivemap.
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An existence proof via robotic simulation that shows that an animal does not, for example, need acognitivemapdoes not mean that such a map is not used.
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The internal representation, for instance, might be a "cognitivemap" of the physical environment, which the organism can then use to conceive alternative routes should the normal pathway be obstructed.
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Directional cues and positional landmarks are also used to create thecognitivemap.
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Much of thecognitivemapis created through self-generated movement cues.
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Clustering shows that people tend to chunk information together according to smaller layouts within a largercognitivemap.
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The results of path integration are then later used by the hippocampus to generate thecognitivemap.
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Analogously to the way grammar arranges words to express meanings and convey a world, also this formed acognitivemap?
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She notes that western magicians make use of mythology as a form ofcognitivemapto structure their otherworldy experience.
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It is often argued that in both humans and animals, spatial memories are summarized as acognitivemap.
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These experiences contribute to each individual's unique view of the world, a kind ofcognitivemapthat guides them.
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This paradigm includes an ordinal scale of features that an individual must attend to in order to inform his or hercognitivemap.
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Acognitivemapis a mental model of objects spatial configuration that permits navigation along optimal path between arbitrary pairs of points.
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The place cells are thought, collectively, to act as a cognitive representation of a specific location in space, known as acognitivemap.
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One, which takes place via knowledge elicitation, is to represent the mental models, i.e., thecognitivemapof individuals, teams and organizations.
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In most cases, acognitivemapexists independently of a mental map, an article covering just cognitive maps would remain limited to theoretical considerations.
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Thecognitivemaplikely exists on a circuit involving much more than just the hippocampus, even if it is primarily based there.
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It is thought of as a three-dimensionalcognitivemap, which contains spatial features about where the person is and visual images of the area, or an object being concentrated on.
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