Mental representations derived from navigation: The role of visuo-spatial abilities and working memory

Meneghetti, Chiara; Zancada-Menendez, C.; Sampedro-Piquero, Patricia; López, Laudino; Martinelli, Massimiliano; Ronconi, Lucia; Rossi, Barbara

doi:10.1016/j.lindif.2016.07.002

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“…A map drawing task should be used in future studies with a more complex environment and ask participants to draw their own map (instead of giving them a layout to place landmarks on) in order to capture its organization properties. Finally, given the influence of individual differences on learning from navigation [33][34][35][36], further studies should seek to clarify how other individual factors, such as gender (given the larger number of females in this study) and other visuo-spatial abilities and attitudes, such as stance on wayfinding [48], might contribute to explaining the properties of our environment representations. Given that the variance explained by our model was only moderate, we need to clarify which factors (both environmental and individual) can best capture the features of an environment representation formed from navigation.…”

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“…Several studies found navigation learning accuracy related to individual visuo-spatial factors [29,[32][33][34][35][36]. These factors include both objectively measurable visuo-spatial abilities, such as mental rotation (as measured by the Mental Rotations Test [37]) and perspective taking (as measured with the Object Perspective Task (OPT; [38]), and self-reported wayfinding competence and preferences, such as sense of direction (i.e., an individual's estimation of their own ability to orient themselves in the environment [39,40]).…”

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Learning a Path from Real Navigation: The Advantage of Initial View, Cardinal North and Visuo-Spatial Ability

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Meneghetti

2020

Brain Sciences

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Background: Spatial cognition research strives to maximize conditions favoring environment representation. This study examined how initial (egocentric) navigation headings interact with allocentric references in terms of world-based information (such as cardinal points) in forming environment representations. The role of individual visuo-spatial factors was also examined. Method: Ninety-one undergraduates took an unfamiliar path in two learning conditions, 46 walked from cardinal south to north (SN learning), and 45 walked from cardinal north to south (NS learning). Path recall was tested with SN and NS pointing tasks. Perspective-taking ability and self-reported sense of direction were also assessed. Results: Linear models showed a better performance for SN learning and SN pointing than for NS learning and NS pointing. The learning condition x pointing interaction proved SN pointing more accurate than NS pointing after SN learning, while SN and NS pointing accuracy was similar after NS learning. Perspective-taking ability supported pointing accuracy. Conclusions: These results indicate that initial heading aligned with cardinal north prompt a north-oriented representation. No clear orientation of the representation emerges when the initial heading is aligned with cardinal south. Environment representations are supported by individual perspective-taking ability. These findings offer new insight on the environmental and individual factors facilitating environment representations acquired from navigation.

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Learning a Path from Real Navigation: The Advantage of Initial View, Cardinal North and Visuo-Spatial Ability

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Meneghetti

2020

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“…Yet another term, "environmental images" [39], is used in environmental psychology. However, the term "mental map" [40][41][42] is becoming increasingly frequent in geographical literature, though "mental images" [43] and "mental representation" [44][45][46] are also used.…”

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“…Studies concerned with content frequency again focussed more on individual differences (100 cases) than on external factors (45). Within individual differences, the predominant interest was in sociocultural factors (43), followed by biological (36) and psychological factors (18).…”

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“…As with positional accuracy, the refuted factors include spatial skills, but this time they are mental rotation and spatial perception [136][137][138]. Spatial visualisation is considered a not-enough-evidence factor because it has been researched in only three studies [45,136,137]. Content frequency, therefore, may be more dependent on the verbal component of perception, though it is also influenced by the non-verbal (imaginative) component (see [139]), while the opposite may be true of positional accuracy.…”

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A Systematic Review into Factors Influencing Sketch Map Quality

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Hanuš

2020

IJGI

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Spatial perception is formed throughout our entire lives. Its quality depends on our individual differences and the characteristics of the environment. A sketch map is one way of visualising an individual’s spatial perception. It can be evaluated like a real map, in terms of its positional accuracy, content frequency and choice of cartographic methods. Moreover, the factors influencing the sketch map and/or its individual parameters can be identified. These factors should be of interest to geographers, cartographers and/or (geography) educators. The aim of this paper is to identify and describe the factors that clearly affect sketch map quality, by conducting a systematic review of 90 empirical studies published since 1960. Results show that most empirical studies focus on individual differences more than on environmental characteristics or information sources, even though the importance of these overlooked factors, especially source map characteristics and geographical education, has been proven in most analysed studies. Therefore, further research is needed in the field of sketch map quality parameters, especially in the use of cartographic methods. This paper could serve as a framework for such research.

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Are Wayfinding Self-efficacy and Pleasure in Exploring Related to Shortcut Finding? A Study in a Virtual Environment

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Labate

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Spatial Cognition X

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Mental representations derived from navigation: The role of visuo-spatial abilities and working memory

Cited by 20 publications

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Learning a Path from Real Navigation: The Advantage of Initial View, Cardinal North and Visuo-Spatial Ability

Learning a Path from Real Navigation: The Advantage of Initial View, Cardinal North and Visuo-Spatial Ability

A Systematic Review into Factors Influencing Sketch Map Quality

Are Wayfinding Self-efficacy and Pleasure in Exploring Related to Shortcut Finding? A Study in a Virtual Environment

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