Orientation specificity and spatial updating of memories for layouts |
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Authors: | Waller David Montello Daniel R Richardson Anthony E Hegarty Mary |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. wallerda@muohio.edu |
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Abstract: | This article examines the degree to which knowledge about the body's orientation affects transformations in spatial memory and whether memories are accessed with a preferred orientation. Participants learned large paths from a single viewpoint and were later asked to make judgments of relative directions from imagined positions on the path. Experiments 1 and 2 contribute to the emerging consensus that memories for large layouts are orientation specific, suggesting that prior findings to the contrary may not have fully accounted for latencies. Experiments 2 and 3 show that knowledge of one's orientation can create a preferred direction in spatial memory that is different from the learned orientation. Results further suggest that spatial updating may not be as automatic as previously thought. |
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