Cognitive mapping in humans and its relationship to other orientation skills
| Autor: | Colin D. Rey, Richard M. Levy, Taisya Krivoruchko, Giuseppe Iaria, Aiden E. G. F. Arnold, Ford Burles, Irene Liu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Cognitive science
Systems neuroscience Communication Cognitive map business.industry General Neuroscience Spatial Behavior Spatial cognition Environment computer.software_genre Time based User-Computer Interface Cognition Memory Orientation (mental) Virtual machine Orientation Space Perception Encoding (memory) Path integration Exploratory Behavior Humans Psychology business computer |
| Zdroj: | Experimental Brain Research. 224:359-372 |
| ISSN: | 1432-1106 0014-4819 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00221-012-3316-0 |
| Popis: | Human orientation in novel and familiar environments is a complex skill that can involve numerous different strategies. To date, a comprehensive account of how these strategies interrelate at the behavioural level has not been documented, impeding the development of elaborate systems neuroscience models of spatial orientation. Here, we describe a virtual environment test battery designed to assess five of the core strategies used by humans to orient. Our results indicate that the ability to form a cognitive map is highly related to more basic orientation strategies, supporting previous proposals that encoding a cognitive map requires inputs from multiple domains of spatial processing. These findings provide a topology of numerous primary orientation strategies used by humans during orientation and will allow researchers to elaborate on neural models of spatial cognition that currently do not account for how different orientation strategies integrate over time based on environmental conditions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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