Path completion after haptic exploration without vision: implications for haptic spatial representations |
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Authors: | Klatzky R L |
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Institution: | Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA. klatzky@cmu.edu |
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Abstract: | Subjects haptically explored two legs of a triangular path and responded by returning to the origin. Seven conditions were tested, varying in (1) whether the path was imaginally displaced between the initial exploration and the response; (2) the nature of the displacement, if present--rotation or translation; (3) variability in the origin location across trials; and (4) instructions to complete a triangle versus remembering the origin location. Mean distance and angle responses were modeled by the encoding-error model (Fujita, Klatzky, Loomis, & Golledge, 1993), which attributes errors to misencoding of the path legs and angle. The model failed to predict the finding of systematic errors in response distance but not response angle, a dissociation that held when the path was undisplaced or imaginally translated. Rotation before responding produced errors more consistent with the model. The data suggest use of a body-centered representation to complete undisplaced or imaginally translated paths, but adoption of an object-centered representation after imagined rotation, as is more consistent with pathway completion using whole-body locomotion. |
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