This place looks familiar-how navigators distinguish places with ambiguous landmark objects when learning novel routes
Authors: Strickrodt, M., O'Malley, M. and Wiener, J.M.
Journal: Frontiers in Psychology
Volume: 6
Issue: DEC
eISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01936
Abstract:We present two experiments investigating how navigators deal with ambiguous landmark information when learning unfamiliar routes. In the experiments we presented landmark objects repeatedly along a route, which allowed us to manipulate how informative single landmarks were (1) about the navigators' location along the route and (2) about the action navigators had to take at that location. Experiment 1 demonstrated that reducing location informativeness alone did not affect route learning performance. While reducing both location and action informativeness led to decreased route learning performance, participants still performed well above chance level. This demonstrates that they used other information than just the identity of landmark objects at their current position to disambiguate their location along the route. To investigate how navigators distinguish between visually identical intersections, we systematically manipulated the identity of landmark objects and the actions required at preceding intersections in Experiment 2. Results suggest that the direction of turn at the preceding intersections was sufficient to tell two otherwise identical intersections apart. Together, results from Experiments 1 and 2 suggest that route knowledge is more complex than simple stimulus-response associations and that neighboring places are tightly linked. These links not only encompass sequence information but also directional information which is used to identify the correct direction of travel at subsequent locations, but can also be used for self-localization.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/23042/
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This Place Looks Familiar-How Navigators Distinguish Places with Ambiguous Landmark Objects When Learning Novel Routes.
Authors: Strickrodt, M., O'Malley, M. and Wiener, J.M.
Journal: Front Psychol
Volume: 6
Pages: 1936
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01936
Abstract:We present two experiments investigating how navigators deal with ambiguous landmark information when learning unfamiliar routes. In the experiments we presented landmark objects repeatedly along a route, which allowed us to manipulate how informative single landmarks were (1) about the navigators' location along the route and (2) about the action navigators had to take at that location. Experiment 1 demonstrated that reducing location informativeness alone did not affect route learning performance. While reducing both location and action informativeness led to decreased route learning performance, participants still performed well above chance level. This demonstrates that they used other information than just the identity of landmark objects at their current position to disambiguate their location along the route. To investigate how navigators distinguish between visually identical intersections, we systematically manipulated the identity of landmark objects and the actions required at preceding intersections in Experiment 2. Results suggest that the direction of turn at the preceding intersections was sufficient to tell two otherwise identical intersections apart. Together, results from Experiments 1 and 2 suggest that route knowledge is more complex than simple stimulus-response associations and that neighboring places are tightly linked. These links not only encompass sequence information but also directional information which is used to identify the correct direction of travel at subsequent locations, but can also be used for self-localization.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/23042/
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This Place Looks Familiar-How Navigators Distinguish Places with Ambiguous Landmark Objects When Learning Novel Routes
Authors: Strickrodt, M., O'Malley, M. and Wiener, J.M.
Journal: FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Volume: 6
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01936
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/23042/
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This place looks familiar-how navigators distinguish places with ambiguous landmark objects when learning novel routes
Authors: Strickrodt, M., O'Malley, M. and Wiener, J.M.
Journal: Frontiers in Psychology
Volume: 6
Issue: DEC
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01936
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/23042/
Source: Manual
This Place Looks Familiar-How Navigators Distinguish Places with Ambiguous Landmark Objects When Learning Novel Routes.
Authors: Strickrodt, M., O'Malley, M. and Wiener, J.M.
Journal: Frontiers in psychology
Volume: 6
Pages: 1936
eISSN: 1664-1078
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01936
Abstract:We present two experiments investigating how navigators deal with ambiguous landmark information when learning unfamiliar routes. In the experiments we presented landmark objects repeatedly along a route, which allowed us to manipulate how informative single landmarks were (1) about the navigators' location along the route and (2) about the action navigators had to take at that location. Experiment 1 demonstrated that reducing location informativeness alone did not affect route learning performance. While reducing both location and action informativeness led to decreased route learning performance, participants still performed well above chance level. This demonstrates that they used other information than just the identity of landmark objects at their current position to disambiguate their location along the route. To investigate how navigators distinguish between visually identical intersections, we systematically manipulated the identity of landmark objects and the actions required at preceding intersections in Experiment 2. Results suggest that the direction of turn at the preceding intersections was sufficient to tell two otherwise identical intersections apart. Together, results from Experiments 1 and 2 suggest that route knowledge is more complex than simple stimulus-response associations and that neighboring places are tightly linked. These links not only encompass sequence information but also directional information which is used to identify the correct direction of travel at subsequent locations, but can also be used for self-localization.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/23042/
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This Place Looks Familiar—How Navigators Distinguish Places with Ambiguous Landmark Objects When Learning Novel Routes
Authors: Strickrod, M., O'Malley, M. and Wiener, J.M.
Journal: Frontiers in Psychology
Volume: 6
Pages: 1936
ISSN: 1664-1078
Abstract:We present two experiments investigating how navigators deal with ambiguous landmark information when learning unfamiliar routes. In the experiments we presented landmark objects repeatedly along a route, which allowed us to manipulate how informative single landmarks were (1) about the navigators' location along the route and (2) about the action navigators had to take at that location. Experiment 1 demonstrated that reducing location informativeness alone did not affect route learning performance. While reducing both location and action informativeness led to decreased route learning performance, participants still performed well above chance level. This demonstrates that they used other information than just the identity of landmark objects at their current position to disambiguate their location along the route. To investigate how navigators distinguish between visually identical intersections, we systematically manipulated the identity of landmark objects and the actions required at preceding intersections in Experiment 2. Results suggest that the direction of turn at the preceding intersections was sufficient to tell two otherwise identical intersections apart. Together, results from Experiments 1 and 2 suggest that route knowledge is more complex than simple stimulus-response associations and that neighboring places are tightly linked. These links not only encompass sequence information but also directional information which is used to identify the correct direction of travel at subsequent locations, but can also be used for self-localization.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/23042/
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