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Elaborate the concept of mental map.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Perspectives in Human Geography

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A mental map (or cognitive map) is the internal, subjective representation of geographical space that an individual carries in the mind — the personal, incomplete and value-laden model of the world through which environmental information is acquired, coded, stored, recalled and used in spatial decision-making.

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