Modern men carry themselves to their goals through a central image they organize in the mind, for the purpose of achieving goals step by step.
A cognitive map at the heart of the human spirit may provide creative directions of thought, in a random and unplanned fashion. The cognitive maps serve the construction and accumulation of spatial knowledge, enabling images to be visualized in order to reduce cognitive load, and improve memory and learning of information.
This type of spatial thinking can also be used as a tool for non-spatial tasks, when people who perform non-spatial memory-related tasks use spatial knowledge to help process the task.
The cognitive map is a spatial representation of the outside world information, that is preserved in the consciousness until an objective revelation of the requested knowledge is created.
Cognitive mapping is a mental mapping of information that is defined in the search for knowledge. Thus, In most cases, the cognitive map exists independently of the psychoanalytic map. Cognitive maps exist in various fields such as psychology, education, archeology, planning, geography, cartography, architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, management and history. As a result, many mental maps in these areas are often referred to by different names, such as: cognitive maps, mental maps, mind maps, scripts, schemas, and reference frames.
One of the applications of the cognitive map is carried out by urban theorists who ask the city dwellers to draw from their memory the city or place where they live. This tool allows the theorist to get an idea of which parts of the city or residence are more significant. This, in turn, throw light on the overwhelming idea of how to properly perform urban planning.
Different population groups need different presentations of reality, in the form of maps that reinforce personal tendencies. Children do not know much beyond the limited world of their lives, and they will draw the map in a way that greatly increases the objects they know, such as home, school, and the connecting way. Advertisers draw maps of the ways to shelves of products they market, in a way that puts them as a priority against others. In fact, anyone who aspires to change his world will draw a map in his imagination that is different from reality.
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| Cognitive map is an illustration that combines the physical and mental environment |
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| Map of Tokyo metro lines in cognitive and artistic style |
