From repeating routes to planning novel routes: the impact of landmarks and ageing on route integration and cognitive mapping.

ABSTRACT: The integration of intersecting routes is an important process for the formation of cognitive maps and thus successful navigation. Here we present a novel task to study route integration and the effects that landmark information and cognitive ageing have on this process. We created two virtual environments, each comprising five places and one central intersection but with different landmark settings: in the Identical Landmark environment, the intersection contained visually monotonic features whereas the intersection contained visually distinctive features in the Different Landmarks environment. In both environments young and older participants were presented with two short routes that both traversed through the shared intersection. To test route integration, participants were asked to eit

SUBMITTER: Grzeschik R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8357655 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature