Simplification and shift in cognition of political difference: applying the geometric modeling to the analysis of semantic similarity judgment.

Perceiving differences by means of spatial analogies is intrinsic to human cognition. Multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) analysis based on Minkowski geometry has been used primarily on data on sensory similarity judgments, leaving judgments on abstractive differences unanalyzed. Indeed, analysts have f...

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Main Authors: Junko Kato, Kensuke Okada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3108968?pdf=render