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卷 229, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105251
关键词
Cognitive map; Spatial memory; Memory space; hippocampus
资金
- Hong Kong Research Grants Council [GRF 17407914]
This study tested whether connections between non-spatial properties can distort judgments about spatial distance. The results showed that similar houses were drawn closer on reconstructed maps, and pairwise distance judgments were smaller for similar houses. These findings support theories that space is represented with other properties, suggesting that the mechanism for encoding space in the hippocampal-entorhinal system has a broader function.
The cognitive map theory suggests the hippocampal-entorhinal system has a representation of space that encodes geometric properties. There is also evidence that the hippocampus plays a critical role in supporting declarative memory, and recent theories have hypothesized the mechanism for encoding space is the same as that for processing memory. If space is not represented independently, it might be influenced by non-spatial properties. This study tested whether connections between non-spatial properties can distort judgments about spatial dis-tance. In virtual reality, subjects navigated through an environment to learn the locations of target houses, and then were tested on their ability to judge the pairwise distances between houses and reconstruct a map of the environment. The environment was constructed to have pairs of houses with the same spatial distance but either the same or different color. If memory for spatial and non-spatial properties interact, similar houses would be expected to be judged as closer. In Experiment 1, the similar pairs all had the same color, while in Experiment 2, each pair had a different color to make the pairs more distinctive. We observed that similar houses were drawn closer on reconstructed maps in both experiments, and pairwise distance judgments were smaller for similar houses in Experiment 2. Biases from color similarity are difficult to reconcile with independent representation of space. Our results support theories that space is represented with other properties, and the mechanisms for encoding space in the hippocampal-entorhinal system have a broader function.
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