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'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 led to better performance than the reverse mappings. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.
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Tversky, B., Corter, J. E., Yu, L., Mason, D. L., & Nickerson, J. V. (2012). Representing category and continuum: Visualizing thought. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 7352 LNAI, pp. 23–34). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31223-6_8
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