Orientation and perspective dependence in route and survey learning
Orientation and perspective dependence in route and survey learning
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DOI:
10.1037/0278-7393.30.1.158
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发表时间:
2004-01-01
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
McNamara, TP
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作者:
Shelton, AL;McNamara, TP
Three experiments investigated the role of egocentric orientation in subsequent memory for layouts learned via route (ground-level) and survey (aerial or overview) perspectives. Participants learned virtual environments from text descriptions (Experiment 1) or visual presentation (Experiments 1-3). In all experiments, scene recognition for route and survey images revealed a cost for switching perspective from study to test. In addition, recognition performance was facilitated when the test view matched the observer's learned orientation but only for the same-perspective recognition test. Experiment 3 demonstrated orientation dependence in judgments of relative direction, with a strong emphasis on initial heading. Together, these results suggest that establishing a reference system for representing spatial information is dependent on specific characteristics of the learning situation.