@inproceedings{7d85e3a39bfd413f98a164c8750a926c,
title = "Visualizing thought: Mapping category and continuum",
abstract = "Abstract thought has roots in the spatial world. Abstractions are expressed in the ways things are arranged in the world as well as the ways people talk and gesture. Mappings to the page should be better when they are congruent, that is, when the abstract concept matches the spatial one. Congruent mappings can be revealed in people{\textquoteright}s performance and preferences. Congruence is supported here for visual representations of continuum and category. Congruently mapping a continuous concept, frequency, to a continuous visual variable and mapping a categorical concept, class inclusion, to a categorical visual variable were preferred and lead to better performance than the reverse mappings.",
keywords = "Diagrammatic reasoning, design, information systems, networks, spatial metaphors",
author = "Barbara Tversky and Corter, \{James E.\} and Lixiu Yu and Mason, \{David L.\} and Nickerson, \{Jeffrey V.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} CogSci 2011.; 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science, CogSci 2011 ; Conference date: 20-07-2011 Through 23-07-2011",
year = "2011",
language = "English",
series = "Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011",
pages = "1577--1582",
editor = "Laura Carlson and Christoph Hoelscher and Shipley, \{Thomas F.\}",
booktitle = "Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011",
}