The role of memory and perspective shifts in systematic biases during object location estimation

Authors: Segen, V., Colombo, G., Avraamides, M., Slattery, T. and Wiener, J.M.

Journal: Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volume: 84

Issue: 4

Pages: 1208-1219

eISSN: 1943-393X

ISSN: 1943-3921

DOI: 10.3758/s13414-022-02445-y

Abstract:

In the current study, we investigated whether the introduction of perspective shifts in a spatial memory task results in systematic biases in object location estimations. To do so, we asked participants to first encode the position of an object in a virtual room and then to report its position from memory or perception following a perspective shift. Overall, our results showed that participants made systematic errors in estimating object positions in the same direction as the perspective shift. Notably, this bias was present in both memory and perception conditions. We propose that the observed systematic bias was driven by difficulties in understanding the perspective shifts that led participants to use an egocentric representation of object positions as an anchor when estimating the object location following a perspective shift.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36054/

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The role of memory and perspective shifts in systematic biases during object location estimation.

Authors: Segen, V., Colombo, G., Avraamides, M., Slattery, T. and Wiener, J.M.

Journal: Atten Percept Psychophys

Volume: 84

Issue: 4

Pages: 1208-1219

eISSN: 1943-393X

DOI: 10.3758/s13414-022-02445-y

Abstract:

In the current study, we investigated whether the introduction of perspective shifts in a spatial memory task results in systematic biases in object location estimations. To do so, we asked participants to first encode the position of an object in a virtual room and then to report its position from memory or perception following a perspective shift. Overall, our results showed that participants made systematic errors in estimating object positions in the same direction as the perspective shift. Notably, this bias was present in both memory and perception conditions. We propose that the observed systematic bias was driven by difficulties in understanding the perspective shifts that led participants to use an egocentric representation of object positions as an anchor when estimating the object location following a perspective shift.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36054/

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The role of memory and perspective shifts in systematic biases during object location estimation

Authors: Segen, V., Colombo, G., Avraamides, M., Slattery, T. and Wiener, J.M.

Journal: ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS

Volume: 84

Issue: 4

Pages: 1208-1219

eISSN: 1943-393X

ISSN: 1943-3921

DOI: 10.3758/s13414-022-02445-y

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36054/

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The role of memory and perspective shifts in systematic biases during object location estimation

Authors: Segen, V., Avraamides, M., Colombo, G., Slattery, T. and Wiener, J.

Journal: Attention, Perception and Psychophysics

Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.

ISSN: 0031-5117

DOI: 10.1101/2021.05.29.446288

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36054/

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The role of memory and perspective shifts in systematic biases during object location estimation.

Authors: Segen, V., Colombo, G., Avraamides, M., Slattery, T. and Wiener, J.M.

Journal: Attention, perception & psychophysics

Volume: 84

Issue: 4

Pages: 1208-1219

eISSN: 1943-393X

ISSN: 1943-3921

DOI: 10.3758/s13414-022-02445-y

Abstract:

In the current study, we investigated whether the introduction of perspective shifts in a spatial memory task results in systematic biases in object location estimations. To do so, we asked participants to first encode the position of an object in a virtual room and then to report its position from memory or perception following a perspective shift. Overall, our results showed that participants made systematic errors in estimating object positions in the same direction as the perspective shift. Notably, this bias was present in both memory and perception conditions. We propose that the observed systematic bias was driven by difficulties in understanding the perspective shifts that led participants to use an egocentric representation of object positions as an anchor when estimating the object location following a perspective shift.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36054/

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The role of memory and perspective shifts in systematic biases during object location estimation

Authors: Segen, V., Colombo, G., Avraamides, M., Slattery, T. and Wiener, J.

Journal: Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volume: 84

Pages: 1208-1219

ISSN: 1943-3921

Abstract:

Our previous research highlighted a systematic bias in a spatial memory task, with participants correctly detecting object movements in the same direction as the perspective shift, whilst misjudging the direction of object movements if those were in the opposite direction to the perspective shift. The aim of the current study was to investigate if the introduction of perspective shifts results in systematic biases in object location estimations. To do so, we asked participants to encode the position of an object in a virtual room and to then estimate the object’s position following a perspective shift. In addition, by manipulating memory load (perception and memory condition) we investigated if the bias in object position estimates results from systematic distortions introduced in spatial memory. Overall, our results show that participants make systematic errors in estimating object positions in the same direction as the perspective shift. This bias was present in both the memory and the perception condition. We propose that the systematic bias in the same direction as the perspective shift is driven by difficulties in understanding the perspective shifts that may lead participants to use an egocentric representation of object positions as an anchor when estimating the object location following a perspective shift, thereby giving rise to a systematic shift in errors in the same direction as the perspective shift.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36054/

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