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Good Day, Due to technical errors, please remove my email from your list. Many thanks. -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 7/24/18, Bin Jiang <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Subject: Re: Question (evidence) To: [log in to unmask] Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2018, 11:02 AM Dear Anonymous and other colleagues, It is an excellent question!!! I have long had this short answer: seeking answers on why space syntax works from human cognitive aspects - for example how humans conceptualize distance or space or how humans minimum angles and distances - is a fallacy; see this earlier paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2177752_Ranking_Space_for_Predicting_Human_Movement_in_an_Urban_Environment Why axial space syntax works - rather than segment analysis that fails to capture the living structure - is little to do with human cognitive aspects. Instead it is to do with the underlying living structure of far more less-connected streets than well-connected ones. In other words, given a street network, people's flow and random walkers' flow are essentially the same, because both are substantially shaped by the underlying living structure. In other words, a majority of traffic flow (e.g. up to 80%) is determined by the living structure or wholeness - the key notion in The Nature of Order (Alexander 2002-2005). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325848238_Why_Topology_Matters_in_Predicting_Human_Activities Thanks and cheers. Bin On 7/24/2018 8:45 AM, Penn, Alan wrote: A couple points on this question, but sorry no answer. I’d be interested in responses too. Minimum angle deviation paths are also distance minimising so the question of what people are optimising must remain open. Topological simplest paths (fewest axial lines) might be thought of as reducing decisions and so reducing cognitive load in some way, if only in terms of the need to remember a route. Sent from my iPhone On 24 Jul 2018, at 07:00, Subik Shrestha <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Hi there, You might find the following paper or the references in the paper to be helpful in this regard (although the paper is not about the human brain's way of navigating): http://spacesyntax.tudelft.nl/media/Long%20papers%20I/hillieriida.pdf Thanks, Subik On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 8:56 PM SUBSCRIBE SPACESYNTAX Anonymous <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Hi Space syntax community, Thank you for being actively involved in academic discussion on space syntax. I do have one question on which hope you could please help. I’d be thankful to have your answer on this question supported by academic evidence. The question is: - As says in space syntax, over time people tend to have “least angular deviations” when traverse between destinations. This is because they wanna unintentionally “minimaise their brain navigation processing”. And, this is again because “least angular deviation” can produce “cognitively simplest journeys”. Now my question is do we have academic evidence (either lab-based or in a free condition) that a pattern with least angular deviation is cognitively easier for brain navigation? (I understand Kevin Lynch’s work may be cited on this; but I’m after more robust new evidence). Thanks, ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the SPACESYNTAX list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=SPACESYNTAX&A=1 To unsubscribe from the SPACESYNTAX list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=SPACESYNTAX&A=1 To unsubscribe from the SPACESYNTAX list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=SPACESYNTAX&A=1 -- -------------------------------------------------------- Bin Jiang Division of GIScience Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development University of Gävle, SE-801 76 Gävle, Sweden Phone: +46-26-64 8901 Fax: +46-26-64 8758 Email: [log in to unmask] Web: http://giscience.hig.se/binjiang/ -------------------------------------------------------- Associate Editor: Cartographica BinsArXiv: http://arxiv.org/a/jiang_b_1 Axwoman: http://giscience.hig.se/binjiang/axwoman/ Geomatics: http://giscience.hig.se/binjiang/geomaticsprogram/ RG: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bin_Jiang3 Högskolan i Gävle, 801 76 Gävle • 026 64 85 00 • www.hig.se För en hållbar livsmiljö för människan University of Gävle, SE-801 76 Gävle, Sweden • +46 (0) 26 64 85 00 • www.hig.se To unsubscribe from the SPACESYNTAX list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=SPACESYNTAX&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the SPACESYNTAX list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=SPACESYNTAX&A=1