MAPA MENTAL

Although it may seem to look like a book at first sight (prima faciae), the Reader is holding a business card in his/her hands: the visiting card of Hungarian and Central-Eastern European researchers dealing with mental mapping. The Reader may now ask back: 'researchers dealing with what?' The notion is not new, yet it had never become widespread enough to make an explanation useless. Mental mapping is the science of orientation. Orientation is an important part of our lives, we use it in several fields, and mental mapping is accordingly and interdisciplinary area, primarily falling into the realms of interest of environmental psychology, cultural anthropology, geography and urbanism. Questions in these different areas are similar to one another: How do we get somewhere? How do we use space? What makes something in space visible for the audience? These questions are not irrelevant from a practical point of view either, in marketing, urban development, or the development of tourist destinations or systems of navigation. The digital support of orientation, the evolution of self-driving systems make the science of orientation face serious challenges. The expression of "mental" or "cognitive map" is a notion used for different things in different disciplines. The number of misinterpretations is increased by the occurrence of many similar notions with a different meaning, like value map, concept map, semantic map etc. The definition used as the most frequent synonym is cognitive map. According to some opinions, cognitive or mental mapping means two different things in the word usage of psychology and social geography. It looks like as if the subject of research was inverted: geography collects knowledge about space, while cognitive map in the interpretation of psychology maps knowledge, i.e. it is engaged in creating a "map" of the meaning structures of consciousness. Other researchers on the other hand (e.g. Barbara Tversky, also appearing in our volume) consider that there is no difference between the two types of notion usage, as in both cases we are dealing with the discovery, the mapping of consciousness contents; and when consciousness is examined, it would be impossible to narrow down the inquiry to the things related to space, because cognitive processes can only be understood in their complexity.

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2012

It’s often hypothesized that the structure of mental representation is map-like rather than language-like. The possibility arises as a counterexample to the argument from the best explanation of productivity and systematicity to the language of thought hypothesis—the hypothesis that mental structure is compositional and recursive. In this paper, I argue that the analogy with maps does not undermine the argument, because maps and language have the same kind of compositional and recursive structure.

A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid to studying and organizing information, solving problems, making decisions, and writing. The fundamentals of mind map are arranged naturally according to the importance of the concepts, and are classified into groupings, branches, or areas, with the goal of representing semantic or other connections between portions of information. Mind maps may also aid recall of existing memories. The ideas are documented in a mind map radiate from the center of diagram, similar the branches or root system of a tree. The colors are important because they provide an extra dimension of information to help your brain interpret the data more effectively. The mind mapping technique can be used as a authoritative, creative and dynamic way to administer projects, structure and classify multifaceted information, and provide motivating reports that grasp people’s attention. By minimizing words and focusing on associations, mind maps allow project managers and team members to rapidly see dependencies and problems, saving time and money. Using mind maps can notably improve a project team’s productivity.

The Italian Digital Classroom, NeMLA Italian Studies XXXIX, 2017

This article will describe the use of mind maps to promote an active learning mean that both language and culture professors can employ in their classes. More specifically, it will examine some applications and benefits of mind maps, both analogically and digitally, as well as the combination of Mind Mapping online and on paper, through a hybrid approach.

Sustainablility, MDPI Journals, 2019

Considering citizens' perceptions of their living environment is very helpful in making the right decisions for city planners who intend to build a sustainable society. Mental map analyses are widely used in understanding the level of perception of individuals regarding the surrounding environment. The present study introduces Aram Mental Map Analyzer (AMMA), an open-source program, which allows researchers to use special features and new analytical methods to receive outputs in numerical data and analytical maps with greater accuracy and speed. AMMA performance is contingent upon two principles of accuracy and complexity, the accuracy of the program is measured by Accuracy Placed Landmarks (APL) and General Orientation (GO), which respectively analyses the landmark placement accuracy and the main route mapping accuracy. Also, the complexity section is examined through two analyses Cell Percentage (CP) and General Structure (GS), which calculates the complexity of citizens' perception of space based on the criteria derived from previous studies. AMMA examines all the dimensions and features of the graphic maps and its outputs have a wide range of valid and differentiated information, which is tailored to the research and information subject matter that is required.

Miskolc University Press, 2023

Introduction: Teachers rarely use mind mapping to develop students' elaboration thinking skills. They use the lecture method more often, so this way does not give students freedom of thought. The advantage of the mind mapping method is that it gives freedom to students to connect an object with other objects in a concept map. This study aims to examine the effect of applying the mind mapping method on students' elaboration thinking skills. Method: This study applied a quasi-experimental method usinga non-equivalent pretestposttest control group design. The research sample was grade V elementary school students, as many as 45. In Grade VA, there are 24 students in the experimental class, while in Grade VB, there are 21 students in the control class. Data analysis implementedn-Gain to test the significance of the difference in the average scores between the two groups. Moreover, the study conducted Cohen's d effect size measurements to determine the magnitude of the effect of treatment between groups. Result: The analysis results of the n-Gain value show a Sig.(2-tailed) 0.00and Cohen's d 0.830 value. While the average value in the experimental class is 0.865, and the control class is 0.657. The analysisshows that the mind mapping method significantly affects students' elaboration thinking skills. Cohen's score demonstrate the difference in the effect on the two groups, which is in the high category, meaning that the mind mapping method massively affects students' elaboration thinking skills. The mind mapping method encourages students to connect their previous knowledge with the studied object. Relationship patterns form a web of relationships between one object and another. Conclusion: The mind mapping method significantly affects students' elaboration thinking skills.

1992

This issue of the Joumal of Management Studies is devoted to a selection of articles that explore the uses of cognitive maps or cause maps for research and intervention in organizations. Before introducing the articles I shall introduce the topic itself and seek to clarifjr its status in relation to its aims.

MANIFESTACIONES PRINCIPALES DE LA VIDA ESPIRITUAL: EL TEMOR DE DIOS. LA CONCIENCIA MORAL. EL DESEO DE DIOS. LA DIGNIDAD HUMANA