This paper addresses the need for a robust map comparison method suitable for finding similarities between thematic maps with different forms of categorisations.
Ties between thematic aspects themselves were also visualized.
He based his claim on a series of shared characteristics of syntactic processing across processing modalities: sensitivity to conceptual factors, direct mapping between thematic relations and syntactic relations, incremental processing, and determinism (the process ends with one result).
The results showed that the SoRT was helpful to improve children's distinction between thematic and taxonomic relationships and their learning of hierarchical taxonomic concepts.
When, on the other hand, such differentiation between themes is obscured or set at variance with the organization of tonalities, the very tension between thematic design and tonal scheme may greatly enhance the subtlety and interest of the form.
Factors that might affect children's classification skills, such as use of single physical characteristics of objects, competition between thematic and taxonomic relationships, difficulty in forming hierarchical categories, were identified.
