Manipulating objects during learning shrinks the global scale of spatial representations in memory: a virtual reality study.

ABSTRACT: Goal-directed approaches to perception usually consider that distance perception is shaped by the body and its potential for interaction. Although this phenomenon has been extensively investigated in the field of perception, little is known about the effect of motor interactions on memory, and how they shape the global representation of large-scale spaces. To investigate this question, we designed an immersive virtual reality environment in which participants had to learn the positions of several items. Half of the participants had to physically (but virtually) grab the items with their hand and drop them at specified locations (active condition). The other half of the participants were simply shown the items which appeared at the specified position without interacting with them (passive c

SUBMITTER: Lhuillier S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10834426 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature