Navigating in Virtual Environments: Does a Map or a Map-Based Description Presented Beforehand Help?

ABSTRACT: One of the aims of research in spatial cognition is to examine the factors capable of optimizing environment learning from navigation, which can be examined using a virtual environment (VE). Different learning conditions can play an important part. This study examined the benefits of presenting configured information (layout with elements arranged in it) using a map or verbal description before a learner navigates in a new environment. Ninety participants were assigned to three learning groups of 30 individuals (15 males and 15 females). Before participants navigated in a VE, one group was shown a map of the environment ("map before navigation"), a second group read a map-like description of the environment ("description before navigation"), and a third group started navigating without any

SUBMITTER: Meneghetti C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8230476 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature