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Intrinsic frames of reference in spatial memory.
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Three experiments investigated the frames of reference used in memory to represent the spatial structure of the environment. Participants learned the locations of objects in a room according to an intrinsic axis of the configuration; the axis was different from or the same as their viewing perspective. Judgments of relative direction using memory were most accurate for imagined headings parallel to the intrinsic axis, even when it differed from the viewing perspective, and there was no cost to learning the layout according to a nonegocentric axis. When the shape of the layout was bilaterally symmetric relative to the intrinsic axis of learning, novel headings orthogonal to that axis were retrieved more accurately than were other novel headings. These results indicate that spatial memories are defined with respect to intrinsic frames of reference, which are selected on the basis of egocentric experience and environmental cues.
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“Previous behavioral work with the JRD task has found evidence for coding of locations and directions in spatial reference frames aligned to local features of the environment such as room geometry or the arrangement of objects within a room (and also in frames aligned to egocentric axes when external features are absent)19, 20.”
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“In cases where subjects have learned multiple views of an environment, or have extensive experience over time, performance is typically best for a single imagined facing direction that acts as a “conceptual north,” and it is better for facing directions that are aligned or orthogonal to this primary reference direction than for directions that are misaligned19, 20.”
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- Authors
- Mou, W., & McNamara, T. P.
- Affiliations
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
- Published
- 2002
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 162-170
- ISSN
- 0278-7393 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1285
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- W2149736968
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- 38.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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- Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition (publishedVersion)
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- Institutional Repository of Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01-MH57868, R01MH057868)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Keywords
- spatial memory, egocentric reference frame, bilateral symmetry, environmental cues
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Attention, Color Perception, Female, Field Dependence-Independence, Humans, Male, Orientation, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Psychophysics, Mental Recall
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