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Direct linkHuttenlocher, Janellen; Hedges, Larry V.; Corrigan, Bryce; Crawford, L. Elizabeth – Cognition, 2004
Four experiments are reported in which people organize a space hierarchically when they estimate particular locations in that space. Earlier work showed that people subdivide circles into quadrants bounded at the vertical and horizontal axes, biasing their estimates towards prototypical diagonal locations within those spatial categories…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Classification, Spatial Ability, Stimuli
