The role of visuo-spatial working memory in map learning: new findings from a map drawing paradigm
The role of visuo-spatial working memory in map learning: new findings from a map drawing paradigm
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DOI：
10.1007/s00426-006-0090-2
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发表时间：
2007-05-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Brandimonte, Maria A.
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作者：
Coluccia, Emanuele;Bosco, Andrea;Brandimonte, Maria A.
近年来，视觉空间工作记忆(VSWM)在环境学习和空间导航中的作用受到越来越多的关注。本研究旨在探讨VSWM在使用地图绘制范式学习地图中的作用。在第一项研究中，采用了双重任务方法。结果表明，地图学习阶段的空间敲击任务选择性地损害了地图绘制，从而支持了VSWM在地图学习中起重要作用的假说。在第二项研究中，使用相关方法，研究表明，在同时的VSWM任务中的表现，而不是在顺序的VSWM任务中的表现，预测了地图绘制技能。这些技能“反过来”与地图学习能力相关。最后，在第三项研究中，我们通过使用不同的地图复制了第二项研究的结果。据我们所知，本研究首次发现证据表明，VSWM的同时方面在从地图学习中发挥着重要作用。
Recently, increasing attention has been devoted to the study of the role of visuo-spatial working memory (VSWM) in environmental learning and spatial navigation. The present research was aimed at investigating the role of VSWM in map learning using a map drawing paradigm. In the first study, a dual task methodology was used. Results showed that map drawing was selectively impaired by a spatial tapping task that was executed during the map learning phase, hence supporting the hypothesis that VSWM plays an essential role in learning from maps. In the second study, using a correlational methodology, it was shown that performance in simultaneous VSWM tasks, but not in sequential VSWM tasks, predicted map drawing skills. These skills "in turn" correlated with map learning abilities. Finally, in the third study, we replicated the results of the second study, by using a different map. To our knowledge, the present study is the first to find evidence that the simultaneous aspects of VSWM play a fundamental role in learning from maps.