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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 142-157Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.30.1.142
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R01MH057868] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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In 4 experiments, the authors investigated spatial updating in a familiar environment. Participants learned locations of objects in a room, walked to the center, and turned to appropriate facing directions before making judgments of relative direction (e.g., Imagine you are standing at X and facing Y. Point to Z.) or egocentric pointing judgments (e.g., You are facing Y. Point to Z.). Experiments manipulated the angular difference between the learning heading and the imagined heading and the angular difference between the actual heading and the imagined heading. Pointing performance was best when the imagined heading was parallel to the learning view, even when participants were facing in other directions, and when actual and imagined headings were the same. Room geometry did not affect these results. These findings indicated that spatial reference directions in memory were not updated during locomotion.
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