Representing Category and Continuum: Visualizing Thought

摘要: Abstract thought has roots in the spatial world. Abstractions are expressed ways things arranged world as well people talk and gesture. Mappings to page should be better when they congruent, that is, abstract concept matches one. Congruent mappings can revealed people's performance preferences. Congruence is supported here for visual representations of continuum category. Congruently mapping a continuous concept, frequency, variable categorical class inclusion, were preferred led than reverse mappings.