Navigation experience and mental representations of the environment: do pilots build better cognitive maps?
| Autor: | Melanie Buset, Mikayla Keller, Jennifer E. Sutton |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Male Psychometrics Aircraft Spatial Learning lcsh:Medicine Context (language use) Environment Social and Behavioral Sciences Human Geography Spatial memory Young Adult Cognition Mental Processes Human Performance Psychology Learning Humans Cities lcsh:Science Video game Applied Psychology Spatial Analysis Behavior Multidisciplinary Cognitive map Geography Perspective (graphical) lcsh:R Cognitive Psychology Experimental Psychology Spatial cognition Video Games Space Perception Mental representation Visual Perception Sensory Perception Female lcsh:Q Aviation Photic Stimulation Psychomotor Performance Cognitive psychology Research Article Spatial Navigation |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 3, p e90058 (2014) PLoS ONE |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Popis: | A number of careers involve tasks that place demands on spatial cognition, but it is still unclear how and whether skills acquired in such applied experiences transfer to other spatial tasks. The current study investigated the association between pilot training and the ability to form a mental survey representation, or cognitive map, of a novel, ground-based, virtual environment. Undergraduate students who were engaged in general aviation pilot training and controls matched to the pilots on gender and video game usage freely explored a virtual town. Subsequently, participants performed a direction estimation task that tested the accuracy of their cognitive map representation of the town. In addition, participants completed the Object Perspective Test and rated their spatial abilities. Pilots were significantly more accurate than controls at estimating directions but did not differ from controls on the Object Perspective Test. Locations in the town were visited at a similar rate by the two groups, indicating that controls' relatively lower accuracy was not due to failure to fully explore the town. Pilots' superior performance is likely due to better online cognitive processing during exploration, suggesting the spatial updating they engage in during flight transfers to a non-aviation context. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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