No evidence for chunking in spatial memory of route experience.

ABSTRACT: Spatial memory is important for supporting the successful completion of everyday activities and is a particularly vulnerable domain in late life. Grouping items together in memory, or chunking, can improve spatial memory performance. In memory for desktop scale spaces and well-learned large-scale environments, error patterns suggest that information is chunked in memory. However, the chunking mechanisms involved in learning new large-scale, navigable environments are poorly understood. In five experiments, two of which included young and older adult samples, participants watched movies depicting routes through building-sized environments while attempting to remember the locations of cued objects. We tested memory for the cued objects with virtual pointing, distance estimation, and map draw

SUBMITTER: Sargent JQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11822856 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature