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- Title
Different mental representations for place recognition and goal localization.
- Authors
Christine Valiquette; Timothy P. McNamara
- Abstract
Determining one's current location and locating a goal relative to one's position are important components of successful human navigation in familiar environments. Several prominent cognitive theories of human spatial memory (e.g., McNamara, 2003; Sholl, 2001; Wang & Spelke, 2002) assume that both behaviors access the same enduring mental representations of the environment. Participants in the present experiment learned the locations of seven objects within a room from two views, and were then tested in a separate room using scene recognition and judgments of relative direction (JRD). Scene recognition results indicated that two viewer-centered representations of the layout of objects were preserved in long-term memory, whereas JRD showed evidence of a single orientation-dependent long-term mental representation. The challenges of incorporating the present findings into existing theories of human spatial memory are discussed.
- Subjects
RECOGNITION (Psychology); MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL research; HUMAN behavior research
- Publication
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2007, Vol 14, Issue 4, p676
- ISSN
1069-9384
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/BF03196820