Does Spatial Navigation Have a Blind-Spot? Visiocentrism Is Not Enough to Explain the Navigational Behavior Comprehensively

Hohol, Mateusz; Baran, Bartosz; Krzyżowski, Michał; Francikowski, Jacek

doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00154

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“…Furthermore, it can inspire applications that aid navigation for visually impaired persons (information access technology; Loomis et al, 1998; Walker & Lindsay, 2006). Finally, it can also diffuse the visuocentric bias in favour of conceptualising navigation as a complex, multimodal process (Cheng et al, 2007; Hohol et al, 2017).…”

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Spatial reorientation with a geometric array of auditory cues

Nardi

Carpenter

Johnson

et al. 2020

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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A visuocentric bias has dominated the literature on spatial navigation and reorientation. Studies on visually accessed environments indicate that, during reorientation, human and non-human animals encode the geometric shape of the environment, even if this information is unnecessary and insufficient for the task. In an attempt to extend our limited knowledge on the similarities and differences between visual and non-visual navigation, here we examined whether the same phenomenon would be observed during auditory-guided reorientation. Provided with a rectangular array of four distinct auditory landmarks, blindfolded, sighted participants had to learn the location of a target object situated on a panel of an octagonal arena. Subsequent test trials were administered to understand how the task was acquired. Crucially, in a condition in which the auditory cues were indistinguishable (same sound sample), participants could still identify the correct target location, suggesting that the rectangular array of auditory landmarks was encoded as a geometric configuration. This is the first evidence of incidental encoding of geometric information with auditory cues and, consistent with the theory of functional equivalence, it supports the generalisation of mechanisms of spatial learning across encoding modalities.

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Spatial reorientation with a geometric array of auditory cues

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Johnson

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“…In the context of the debate on navigation models, our results obtained by applying a nonvisual paradigm provide data that challenge the visiocentrism predominant in spatial navigation studies. Both competing theoretical frameworks, namely, GM and VM, are overly focused on visually guided navigation (Hohol et al, 2017). The presented study provides direct evidence for non-visual apprehension of layout symmetry and its utilization in place finding by insects.…”

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“…In order to navigate in space, animals use various kinds of cues received via multiple modalities (Webb & Wystrach, 2016). Nevertheless, the contribution of vision seems to be examined much more than any other modality (regarding studies involving both vertebrate and invertebrate species) constituting a rather "visiocentric" predisposition in spatial navigation studies (Hohol, Baran, Krzyżowski, & Francikowski, 2017). Numerous visionbased behaviors, originally discovered in vertebrates, have also been revealed in insects using similar experimental setups.…”

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“…Moreover, it has recently been argued that VM is able to explain any complex navigational behavior, to the exclusion of other mechanisms (assuming sufficient capacity of memory to store the views), which calls its explanatory value into question (Duval, 2019;Hohol et al, 2017). Aside from navigation by visual cues (Doria, Morand-Ferron, & Bertram, 2019;Wessnitzer, Mangan, & Webb, 2008), crickets have been tested in experiments involving auditory cues (Hedwig & Poulet, 2005;Reeve & Webb, 2003).…”

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Geometry-based navigation in the dark: Layout symmetry facilitates spatial learning in the house cricket,Acheta domesticus, in the absence of visual cues

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Rádai

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There is heavy debate about the mechanisms of spatial navigation by insects. Researchers tend to focus mainly on vision-based models, neglecting non-visual modalities. The capacity to navigate by layout symmetry has been reported in vertebrates. Nevertheless, there has been no direct evidence for such an ability in insects, especially regarding center finding. To provide novel insight into the ongoing debate, we developed a non-visual paradigm for testing navigation by layout geometry. We tested the house crickets to find a cool spot positioned centrally in heated arenas of different shapes. We found that the symmetry of the arena significantly facilitates how crickets learn to find the center of the arena, both in terms of time spent on the cool spot and the latency of locating it. Because there were no visual cues, this observation challenges visiocentric models. As alternatives, we discuss the possibility of nonvisual space representation, or non-spatial search strategy.

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“…Studies on the cognitive processing of numbers have been conducted since the 1960s (Moyer and Landauer 1967), and in recent decades, a new research field of cognitive science, known as numerical cognition, has been established (Cohen Kadosh and Dowker 2015;LeFevre 2016). Each year, a number of experimental reports-concerning the impact of both domain-specific (Cipora et al 2016;Feigenson et al 2004) and domaingeneral factors (Hohol et al 2017a;Wołoszyn and Hohol 2017)-is published in numerous scientific journals. Furthermore, the most current knowledge on number processing has been synthesized in several book monographs, whose authors and contributors use differing, and-at least to some extent-competitive, theoretical perspectives (Adams et al 2017;Dehaene 2011;Henik 2016;Lakoff and Núñez 2000).…”

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Cognitive Artifacts for Geometric Reasoning

Hohol

Miłkowski

2019

Found Sci

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In this paper, we focus on the development of geometric cognition. We argue that to understand how geometric cognition has been constituted, one must appreciate not only individual cognitive factors, such as phylogenetically ancient and ontogenetically early core cognitive systems, but also the social history of the spread and use of cognitive artifacts. In particular, we show that the development of Greek mathematics, enshrined in Euclid's Elements, was driven by the use of two tightly intertwined cognitive artifacts: the use of lettered diagrams; and the creation of linguistic formulae (namely non-compositional fixed strings of words used repetitively within authors and between them). Together, these artifacts formed the professional language of geometry. In this respect, the case of Greek geometry clearly shows that explanations of geometric reasoning have to go beyond the confines of methodological individualism to account for how the distributed practice of artifact use has stabilized over time. This practice, as we suggest, has also contributed heavily to the understanding of what mathematical proof is; classically, it has been assumed that proofs are not merely deductively correct but also remain invariant over various individuals sharing the same cognitive practice. Cognitive artifacts in Greek geometry constrained the repertoire of admissible inferential operations, which made these proofs inter-subjectively testable and compelling. By focusing on the cognitive operations on artifacts, we also stress that mental mechanisms that contribute to these operations are still poorly understood, in contrast to those mechanisms which drive symbolic logical inference.

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Does Spatial Navigation Have a Blind-Spot? Visiocentrism Is Not Enough to Explain the Navigational Behavior Comprehensively

Cited by 8 publications

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Spatial reorientation with a geometric array of auditory cues

Spatial reorientation with a geometric array of auditory cues

Geometry-based navigation in the dark: Layout symmetry facilitates spatial learning in the house cricket,Acheta domesticus, in the absence of visual cues

Cognitive Artifacts for Geometric Reasoning

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