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rotation and alignment heuristics: a standalone construct

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Spatial cognition

systematic errors in remembered maps where regions are rotated toward canonical axes and figures are lined up with one another more than they really are.

In spatial cognition, rotation and alignment heuristics refers to systematic errors in remembered maps where regions are rotated toward canonical axes and figures are lined up with one another more than they really are. This meaning comes from Tversky (1981) in Cognitive Psychology.[1]

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References

Tversky, B. (1981). Distortions in memory for maps. Cognitive Psychology, 13(3), 407-433. https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0285(81)90016-5

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