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Perceiving Topological Relations
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Abstract
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There are many ways to describe and represent the visuospatial world. A space can be described by its euclidean properties-the size of objects, the angles of boundaries, the distances between them. A space can also be described in nonspatial terms: One could explain the layout of a city by the order of its streets. Somewhere in between, topological representations-such as those commonly depicted in public-transit maps-capture coarse relational structure without precise euclidean detail, offering a relatively efficient, low-dimensional way of capturing spatial content. Here, we ask whether human adults quickly and automatically perceive such relations. In six experiments, we show that differences in simple topological features influence a range of visual tasks from object matching to number estimation to visual search. We discuss the possibility that topological relations are a kind of visual primitive that supports visuospatial representation.
Keywords:
topology
geometry
perception
spatial cognition
relations
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164
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