TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrating spatial information across experiences
AU - Greenauer, Nathan
AU - Mello, Catherine
AU - Kelly, Jonathan W.
AU - Avraamides, Marios N.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This research was supported in part by a grant (European Research Commission grant OSSMA 206912) to the third author. We thank Marios Theodorou, Yianna Armosti, Margarita Panayiotou, and Christina Michael for their assistance in conducting these experiments.
PY - 2013/9
Y1 - 2013/9
N2 - The current study examined the potential influence of existing spatial knowledge on the coding of new spatial information. In the Main experiment, participants learned the locations of five objects before completing a perspective-taking task. Subsequently, they studied the same five objects and five additional objects from a new location before completing a second perspective-taking task. Task performance following the first learning phase was best from perspectives aligned with the learning view. However, following the second learning phase, performance was best from the perspective aligned with the second view. A supplementary manipulation increased the salience of the initial view through environmental structure as well as the number of objects present. Results indicated that the initial learning view was preferred throughout the experiment. The role of assimilation and accommodation mechanisms in spatial memory, and the conditions under which they occur, are discussed.
AB - The current study examined the potential influence of existing spatial knowledge on the coding of new spatial information. In the Main experiment, participants learned the locations of five objects before completing a perspective-taking task. Subsequently, they studied the same five objects and five additional objects from a new location before completing a second perspective-taking task. Task performance following the first learning phase was best from perspectives aligned with the learning view. However, following the second learning phase, performance was best from the perspective aligned with the second view. A supplementary manipulation increased the salience of the initial view through environmental structure as well as the number of objects present. Results indicated that the initial learning view was preferred throughout the experiment. The role of assimilation and accommodation mechanisms in spatial memory, and the conditions under which they occur, are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00426-012-0452-x
DO - 10.1007/s00426-012-0452-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 22941360
AN - SCOPUS:84881559299
SN - 0340-0727
VL - 77
SP - 540
EP - 554
JO - Psychological Research
JF - Psychological Research
IS - 5
ER -