Memory for Location: Changes over Learning and Development

位置记忆：学习和发展的变化

• 批准号: 0343034
• 负责人: Jodie Plumert
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Iowa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-01 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0343034&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Memory; Location; Changes; over; Learning

Where are my keys? How do I get to your house? We've all experienced long and tedious searches for hard-to-find objects and places. These experiences underscore how important memory for location is for everyday functioning. So how do people remember where things are? Other research has shown that people recall several types of information when trying to locate a missing object (like their car keys). They might remember something rather general about the area containing the keys (on a cluttered kitchen table). They might also remember something more specific about exactly where the keys are on the table (close to the far edge). But how people actually combine more general information about areas or regions with more specific information about distance and direction is not well understood. Even less is known about developmental changes in how children use these two types of information to remember locations.With support from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Jodie Plumert will conduct basic research to better understand developmental changes in how the mind combines information about the category to which a location belongs (e.g., area or region) with information about where the location is within the category (e.g., distance and direction) to arrive at estimates of location. Using techniques that make it easier or harder for children to remember metric and categorical information, Dr. Plumert will observe how children's reliance on these two types of information changes over development. This research will enhance our understanding of how children and adults solve the problem of remembering where things are, a skill fundamental to everyday functioning. More broadly, this research will inform the field of geographic education by providing new insights into how children combine information about geographic regions such as states with information about distance and direction within states to remember specific locations (e.g., state capitols). The research will also provide many opportunities to enhance graduate and undergraduate learning, develop new equipment and software, and disseminate research findings.

我的钥匙在哪里？ 我怎么去你家？ 我们都经历过漫长而乏味的搜索难以找到的对象和地方。 这些经历强调了位置记忆对日常运作的重要性。那么人们是如何记住东西在哪里的呢？其他研究表明，人们在试图找到丢失的物体（如车钥匙）时会回忆起几种类型的信息。 他们可能会记得一些关于钥匙所在区域的大致情况（在杂乱的厨房桌子上）。 他们可能还记得一些更具体的东西，比如钥匙在桌子上的确切位置（靠近远边）。但是人们实际上是如何将关于区域或地区的更一般的信息与关于距离和方向的更具体的信息结合起来的，这一点还没有得到很好的理解。 在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，Jodie Plumert博士将进行基础研究，以更好地了解大脑如何结合有关位置所属类别的信息（例如，区域或地区）与关于该位置在该类别内的位置的信息（例如，距离和方向）来估计位置。Plumert博士将使用使儿童更容易或更难记住度量和分类信息的技术，观察儿童对这两种信息的依赖如何随着发展而变化。这项研究将加深我们对儿童和成人如何解决记住东西在哪里的问题的理解，这是一项对日常运作至关重要的技能。更广泛地说，这项研究将为地理教育领域提供新的见解，了解儿童如何将有关州等地理区域的信息与有关州内距离和方向的信息相结合，以记住特定位置（例如，州议会大厦）。 这项研究还将提供许多机会，以加强研究生和本科生的学习，开发新的设备和软件，并传播研究成果。