Predicting Cognitive Styles from Spatial Abilities

Nori, Raffaella; Giusberti, Fiorella

doi:10.2307/20445319

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“…Building task (Palermo et al, 2010; a modified version of the photo task of Nori & Giusberti, 2006) The task included 20 items, each of which consisted of two stimuli. In each item, the first stimulus was a photo of a building (target).…”

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The roles of categorical and coordinate spatial relations in recognizing buildings

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Atten Percept Psychophys

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Categorical spatial information is considered more useful for recognizing objects, and coordinate spatial information for guiding actions-for example, during navigation or grasping. In contrast with this assumption, we hypothesized that buildings, unlike other categories of objects, require both categorical and coordinate spatial information in order to be recognized. This hypothesis arose from evidence that right-brain-damaged patients have deficits in both coordinate judgments and recognition of buildings and from the fact that buildings are very useful for guiding navigation in urban environments. To test this hypothesis, we assessed 210 healthy college students while they performed four different tasks that required categorical and coordinate judgments and the recognition of common objects and buildings. Our results showed that both categorical and coordinate spatial representations are necessary to recognize a building, whereas only categorical representations are necessary to recognize an object. We discuss our data in view of a recent neural framework for visuospatial processing, suggesting that recognizing buildings may specifically activate the parieto-medial-temporal pathway.

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The roles of categorical and coordinate spatial relations in recognizing buildings

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Nori

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“…Sequence task (Nori & Giusberti, 2006 ) . Patients observed the picture of a landscape they had never seen before in frontal view ( Figure 6b ).…”

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Environment and object mental images in patients with representational neglect: Two case reports

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Nori

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et al. 2010

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The aim of this study was to shed light on the nature of the imagery deficits in two patients with representational neglect and to determine whether representational neglect is affected by the content of the mental images the patients have to generate, inspect and manipulate. In particular, we submitted two patients with different types of representational neglect to a battery of visual mental imagery tests to assess the different kinds of imagery processes. We found that Patient 1, whose performance was asymmetrical on the O'Clock Test, performed poorly on tasks involving the mental generation, inspection and manipulation of objects but showed no deficit on tasks involving the mental generation, inspection and manipulation of environments. On the other hand, Patient 2, whose performance was asymmetrical on the Familiar Squares Description Test, performed poorly on tasks involving the mental generation, inspection and manipulation of environments, but not on tasks involving the mental generation, inspection and manipulation of objects. Our results demonstrate that environments and objects in the imagery domain can be represented separately and can be selectively affected by damage following brain lesions.

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“…Nori and Giusberti (2006) submitted one hundred and seventy-nine participants to nine spatial tasks that were linked with the three forms of spatial representations described above (landmark, route, and survey). Results showed that the nine spatial tasks could be used to distinguish different spatial abilities.…”

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Alignment Effect: Primary – Secondary Learning and Cognitive Styles

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The degree to which the way of learning spatial information (primary/secondary learning) and spatial cognitive style (landmark/route/survey) affect orientation specificity (alignment effect) is studied. We think that the most important factor explaining the absence of the alignment effect is the spatial cognitive style. We hypothesise that while landmark participants show an alignment effect after both primary and secondary learning, route participants show this effect only after secondary learning, and survey participants do not show it at all. Participants performed three tasks in order to distinguish their cognitive style; they were then randomly assigned to primary or secondary learning and submitted to directional judgment tasks to verify whether the alignment effect was present. The results confirm our hypothesis.

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Predicting Cognitive Styles from Spatial Abilities

Cited by 59 publications

References 39 publications

The roles of categorical and coordinate spatial relations in recognizing buildings

The roles of categorical and coordinate spatial relations in recognizing buildings

Environment and object mental images in patients with representational neglect: Two case reports

Alignment Effect: Primary – Secondary Learning and Cognitive Styles

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