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- Title
Reframing spatial frames of reference: What can aging tell us about egocentric and allocentric navigation?
- Authors
Ladyka‐Wojcik, Natalia; Barense, Morgan D.
- Abstract
Representations of space in mind are crucial for navigation, facilitating processes such as remembering landmark locations, understanding spatial relationships between objects, and integrating routes. A significant problem, however, is the lack of consensus on how these representations are encoded and stored in memory. Specifically, the nature of egocentric and allocentric frames of reference in human memory is widely debated. Yet, in recent investigations of the spatial domain across the lifespan, these distinctions in mnemonic spatial frames of reference have identified age‐related impairments. In this review, we survey the ways in which different terms related to spatial representations in memory have been operationalized in past aging research and suggest a taxonomy to provide a common language for future investigations and theoretical discussion. This article is categorized under:Psychology > MemoryNeuroscience > CognitionPsychology > Development and Aging
- Subjects
MEMORY; SPATIAL memory; NAVIGATION
- Publication
WIREs: Cognitive Science, 2021, Vol 12, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1939-5078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/wcs.1549