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01-01-2006 | Original Article

Distance cognition in virtual environmental space: Further investigations to clarify the route-angularity effect

Auteurs: Petra Jansen-Osmann, Gunnar Wiedenbauer

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 1/2006

Abstract

Two experiments with 72 participants in total investigated the route-angularity effect. This effect is shown when a greater number of turns along a route increase the estimated length of this route. In this study it was shown that the route-angularity effect is likely to be a memory-based effect depending on task difficulty. The important factor seems to be how heavily memory is loaded during learning. The route-angularity effect even appears in intentional learning, when memory is loaded heavily. Under this learning condition participants know beforehand that they have to estimate distances. All experiments were conducted in a controlled virtual environment, which allows a reliable investigation of distance estimations in environmental space.

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Titel: Distance cognition in virtual environmental space: Further investigations to clarify the route-angularity effect
Auteurs: Petra Jansen-Osmann
Gunnar Wiedenbauer
Publicatiedatum: 01-01-2006
Uitgeverij: Springer-Verlag
Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research / Uitgave 1/2006
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-004-0183-8

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