No advantage for remembering horizontal over vertical spatial locations learned from a single viewpoint.

ABSTRACT: Previous behavioral and neurophysiological research has shown better memory for horizontal than for vertical locations. In these studies, participants navigated toward these locations. In the present study we investigated whether the orientation of the spatial plane per se was responsible for this difference. We thus had participants learn locations visually from a single perspective and retrieve them from multiple viewpoints. In three experiments, participants studied colored tags on a horizontally or vertically oriented board within a virtual room and recalled these locations with different layout orientations (Exp. 1) or from different room-based perspectives (Exps. 2 and 3). All experiments revealed evidence for equal recall performance in horizontal and vertical memory. In addition, t

SUBMITTER: Hinterecker T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5758721 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature