Measuring configural spatial knowledge: Individual differences in correlations between pointing and shortcutting.

ABSTRACT: People use environmental knowledge to maintain a sense of direction in daily life. This knowledge is typically measured by having people point to unseen locations (judgments of relative direction) or navigate efficiently in the environment (shortcutting). Some people can estimate directions precisely, while others point randomly. Similarly, some people take shortcuts not experienced during learning, while others mainly follow learned paths. Notably, few studies have directly tested the correlation between pointing and shortcutting performance. We compared pointing and shortcutting in two experiments, one using desktop virtual reality (VR) (N = 57) and one using immersive VR (N = 48). Participants learned a new environment by following a fixed route and were then asked to point to unseen lo

SUBMITTER: He C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10716069 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature