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Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research 3/2007

01-05-2007 | Original Article

The role of body-based sensory information in the acquisition of enduring spatial representations

Auteurs: David Waller, Nathan Greenauer

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 3/2007

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Abstract

Although many previous studies have shown that body-based sensory modalities such as vestibular, kinesthetic, and efferent information are useful for acquiring spatial information about one’s immediate environment, relatively little work has examined how these modalities affect the acquisition of long-term spatial memory. Three groups of participants learned locations along a 146 m indoor route, and subsequently pointed to these locations, estimated distances between them, and constructed maps of the environment. One group had access to visual, proprioceptive, and inertial information, another had access to matched visual and matched inertial information, and another had access only to matched visual information. In contrast to previous findings examining transient, online spatial representations, our results showed very few differences among groups in the accuracy of the spatial memories acquired. The only difference was the improved pointing accuracy of participants who had access to proprioceptive information relative to that of participants in the other conditions. Results are discussed in terms of differential sensory contributions to transient and enduring spatial representations.
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Unlike many manufacturers, Cybermind reports resolution of their HMDs in terms of the number of pixels—not in terms of the number of red/green/blue triads of pixels.
 
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Although the yoked design permitted analyses of difference scores between Walk and matched Wheeled participants, the correlations on all outcomes between these two groups was generally quite low (maximum r = 0.14, p = 0.54), thus significantly reducing the power of such an approach.
 
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Indeed, it is worth noting that the amount of time between locations during which useful body-based information about rotations was available is highly correlated with our measure of path complexity. Thus, our conclusions about the differential impact of path complexity across the three learning conditions may be equally well-described as a differential impact of time spent acquiring angular information.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
The role of body-based sensory information in the acquisition of enduring spatial representations
Auteurs
David Waller
Nathan Greenauer
Publicatiedatum
01-05-2007
Uitgeverij
Springer-Verlag
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 3/2007
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-006-0087-x

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