Path information effects in visual and proprioceptive spatial learning.

Full Abstract

Objects in an environment are often encountered sequentially during spatial learning, forming a path along which object locations are experienced. The present study investigated the effect of spatial information conveyed through the path in visual and proprioceptive learning of a room-sized spatial layout, exploring whether different modalities differentially depend on the integrity of the path. Learning object locations along a coherent path was compared with learning them in a spatially random manner. Path integrity had little effect on visual learning, whereas learning with the coherent path produced better memory performance than random order learning for proprioceptive learning. These results suggest that path information has differential effects in visual and proprioceptive spatial learning, perhaps due to a difference in the way one establishes a reference frame for representing relative locations of objects.

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Author information

Author/s: Yamamoto, Naohide (N); Shelton, Amy L (AL);

Affiliation: Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. yamamoto(-atsign-)jhu.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Acta psychologica (Acta Psychol (Amst)), published in Netherlands. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2007-Jul; vol 125 (issue 3) : pp 346-60

Dates: Created 2007/07/13; Completed 2007/09/18;

PMID: 17067542, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Adolescent
Adult
Analysis of Variance
Concept Formation - physiology
Cues
Decision Making - physiology
Female
Humans
Judgment - physiology
Learning - physiology

Learning - physiology
Male
Memory - physiology
Orientation - physiology
Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology
Proprioception - physiology
Serial Learning - physiology
Space Perception - physiology
Students - psychology
Visual Perception - physiology

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