Roles of Egocentric and Allocentric Spatial Representations in Locomotion and Reorientation

Autor/inn/en	Mou, Weimin; McNamara, Timothy P.; Rump, Bjorn; Xiao, Chengli
Titel	Roles of Egocentric and Allocentric Spatial Representations in Locomotion and Reorientation
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32 (2006) 6, S.1274-1290 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
Schlagwörter	Spatial Ability; Visualization; Retention (Psychology); Memory; Memorization; Experiments; Thinking Skills; Recall (Psychology); Visual Learning + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Visualisation; Visualisierung; Merkfähigkeit; Gedächtnis; Gedächtnistraining; Erprobung; Denkfähigkeit; Abberufung; Visual education; Visuelles Lernen
Abstract	Four experiments investigated the nature of spatial representations used in locomotion. Participants learned the layout of several objects and then pointed to the objects while blindfolded in 3 conditions: before turning (baseline), after turning to a new heading (updating), and after disorientation (disorientation). The internal consistency of pointing in the disorientation condition was relatively high and equivalent to that in the baseline and updating conditions, when the layout had salient intrinsic axes and the participants learned the locations of the objects on the periphery of the layout. The internal consistency of pointing was disrupted by disorientation when participants learned the locations of objects while standing amid them and the layout did not have salient intrinsic axes. It was also observed that many participants retrieved spatial relations after disorientation from the original learning heading. These results indicate that people form an allocentric representation of object-to-object spatial relations when they learn the layout of a novel environment and use that representation to locate objects around them. Egocentric representations may be used to locate objects when allocentric representations are not of high fidelity. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10