Spatial reorientation with non-visual cues: Failure to spontaneously use auditory information
| Autor: | Brittany V Griffith, Brian J Anzures, Daniele Nardi, Josie M. Clark |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male Physiology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Space (commercial competition) 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Orientation Physiology (medical) Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sensory cue General Psychology Landmark 05 social sciences Kinesthetic learning General Medicine Proprioception Predictive value Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Space Perception Auditory Perception Auditory information Spatial cues Female Cues Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Spatial Navigation Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 72:1141-1154 |
| ISSN: | 1747-0226 1747-0218 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1747021818780715 |
| Popis: | Among the environmental stimuli that can guide navigation in space, most attention has been dedicated to visual information. The process of determining where you are and which direction you are facing (called reorientation) has been extensively examined by providing the navigator with two sources of information—typically the shape of the environment and its features—with an interest in the extent to which they are used. Similar questions with non-visual cues are lacking. Here, blindfolded sighted participants had to learn the location of a target in a real-world, circular search space. In Experiment 1, two ecologically relevant non-visual cues were provided: the slope of the floor and an array of two identical auditory landmarks. Slope successfully guided behaviour, suggesting that proprioceptive/kinesthetic access is sufficient to navigate on a slanted environment. However, despite the fact that participants could localise the auditory sources, this information was not encoded. In Experiment 2, the auditory cue was made more useful for the task because it had greater predictive value and there were no competing spatial cues. Nonetheless, again, the auditory landmark was not encoded. Finally, in Experiment 3, after being prompted, participants were able to reorient by using the auditory landmark. Overall, participants failed to spontaneously rely on the auditory cue, regardless of how informative it was. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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