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Map or Graph? Systematic Biases Inform the Structure of Human Spatial Representations

2026-02-11

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<p>The present study investigated the structure of spatial representations using a novel computer-based navigation task. Specifically, we examined whether participants’ knowledge of a virtual environment was more consistent with the cognitive map or labeled graph hypothesis of spatial representation. Participants learned a virtual environment through disparate routes and then made relative and absolute distance ju...

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Literature Corpus work: abb6041c-32db-542f-8d8c-5fbe5f052e31
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/9vfq3_v1

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