Combining egoformative and alloformative cues in a novel tabletop navigation task.

ABSTRACT: Previous work has shown how different interfaces (i.e., route navigation, maps, or a combination of the two) influence spatial knowledge and recollection. To test for the existence of intermediate representations along an egocentric-to-allocentric continuum, we developed a novel task, tabletop navigation, to provide a mixture of cues that inform the emergence of egocentric and allocentric representations or strategies. In this novel tabletop task, participants navigated a remote-controlled avatar through a tabletop scale model of the virtual city. Participants learned virtual cities from either navigating routes, studying maps, or our new tabletop navigation task. We interleaved these learning tasks with either an in situ pointing task (the scene- and orientation-dependent pointing [SOP] t

SUBMITTER: Starrett MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9526213 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature