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Virtual Copetown: Integrating Spatial Relationships Across Separately Learned Routes
Tansan, Merve
Tansan, Merve
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2023-12
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Psychology
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http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/9488
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Whether humans form cognitive maps is controversial. One view is that the ability to generate detours and shortcuts demonstrates retention of direction and distance information integrated within a common frame of reference. Another view is that spatial representations are not Euclidean, given findings of biases, distortions, and lack of recognition of impossible spaces in VR. A compromise comes from an individual-differences perspective, suggesting that some people in some environments may integrate across routes. We created Virtual Copetown to examine within-route knowledge, integration between routes with experienced connections, and integration between routes requiring inference. We also examined cognitive correlates of the ability to make these judgments. Our results indicated that some people were more accurate across all kinds of pointing judgments including inferred relations, along with ability to construct an overall map of Copetown. A second group of people were less accurate overall, and less accurate for between-route relations than within-route relations; they also had worse mapping scores. Variability was related to self-reports of navigation strategy use.
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