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22-11-2014 | Original Article

Reference frames in learning from maps and navigation

Auteurs: Tobias Meilinger, Julia Frankenstein, Katsumi Watanabe, Heinrich H. Bülthoff, Christoph Hölscher

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 6/2015

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Abstract

In everyday life, navigators often consult a map before they navigate to a destination (e.g., a hotel, a room, etc.). However, not much is known about how humans gain spatial knowledge from seeing a map and direct navigation together. In the present experiments, participants learned a simple multiple corridor space either from a map only, only from walking through the virtual environment, first from the map and then from navigation, or first from navigation and then from the map. Afterwards, they conducted a pointing task from multiple body orientations to infer the underlying reference frames. We constructed the learning experiences in a way such that map-only learning and navigation-only learning triggered spatial memory organized along different reference frame orientations. When learning from maps before and during navigation, participants employed a map- rather than a navigation-based reference frame in the subsequent pointing task. Consequently, maps caused the employment of a map-oriented reference frame found in memory for highly familiar urban environments ruling out explanations from environmental structure or north preference. When learning from navigation first and then from the map, the pattern of results reversed and participants employed a navigation-based reference frame. The priority of learning order suggests that despite considerable difference between map and navigation learning participants did not use the more salient or in general more useful information, but relied on the reference frame established first.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Reference frames in learning from maps and navigation
Auteurs
Tobias Meilinger
Julia Frankenstein
Katsumi Watanabe
Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Christoph Hölscher
Publicatiedatum
22-11-2014
Uitgeverij
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 6/2015
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-014-0629-6