The influences of virtual geographic environment on styles of spatial cognition

The virtual geographic environment is a new tool of spatial cognition.This article introduces the features of the virtual geographic environment and analyses these characters' influences on the styles of spatial cognition.The multi-sensor of virtual geographic environment extends human's means of spatial cognition,and offers an effective method for those who have no ideas about GIS or cartography.Furthermore it has changed people's styles of spatial thinking and made the abstract thinking to pay equal attention to primary visual thinking.The virtual geographic environment has hugely improved people's ability of spatial cognition.