Transfer of Spatial Behavior Between Different Environments: Implications for Theories of Spatial Learning and for the Role of the Hippocampus in Spatial Learning.

Pearce, John M.; Good, Mark Andrew; Jones, Peter M.; McGregor, Anthony

doi:10.1037/0097-7403.30.2.135

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“…We have provided a proof of concept and show in the companion article (Cheung et al, 2007) how this tool can now be used to probe many variants of experiments designed to unravel the contributions of space shape and feature cues to the task of localizing a goal. It will be especially useful to understand and predict the search behavior of animals in nonrectangular spaces, the visual appearance of which is difficult to analyze in any other way (e.g., Graham, Good, McGregor, & Pearce, 2006;Pearce et al, 2004;Tommasi & Polli, 2004). This topic is the subject of the companion article (Cheung et al, 2007).…”

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“…Gallistel (1990) hypothesized that animals in experimental spaces use the principal axes of space for orientation by extracting a global shape parameter, whereas others (Pearce, Good, Jones, & McGregor, 2004;Tommasi & Polli, 2004) recently have suggested that local geometric cues such as corner angles deliver the geometric cues. So far, experimental results are ambiguous on this issue, and Cheng (2005) therefore proposed that geometric and featural cues are encoded together, but that some computational Figure 8.…”

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The information content of panoramic images I: The rotational errors and the similarity of views in rectangular experimental arenas.

Stürzl¹,

Cheung²,

Chen³

et al. 2008

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

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Animals relocating a target corner in a rectangular space often make rotational errors searching not only at the target corner but also at the diagonally opposite corner. The authors tested whether view-based navigation can explain rotational errors by recording panoramic snapshots at regularly spaced locations in a rectangular box. The authors calculated the global image difference between the image at each location and the image recorded at a target location in 1 of the corners, thus creating a 2-dimensional map of image differences. The authors found the most pronounced minima of image differences at the target corner and the diagonally opposite corner-conditions favoring rotational errors. The authors confirmed these results in virtual reality simulations and showed that the relative salience of different visual cues determines whether image differences are dominated by geometry or by features. The geometry of space is thus implicitly contained in panoramic images and does not require explicit computation by a dedicated module. A testable prediction is that animals making rotational errors in rectangular spaces are guided by remembered views.

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The information content of panoramic images I: The rotational errors and the similarity of views in rectangular experimental arenas.

Stürzl¹,

Cheung²,

Chen³

et al. 2008

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

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148

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McGregor, 2004). The authors simulated 1 experiment from each study in a virtual reality environment to test whether experimental results could be explained by view-based navigation.

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The information content of panoramic images II: View-based navigation in nonrectangular experimental arenas.

Cheung

Stürzl

Zeil

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Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

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McGregor, 2004). The authors simulated 1 experiment from each study in a virtual reality environment to test whether experimental results could be explained by view-based navigation. The authors recorded a reference image at the target location and then determined global panoramic image differences between this image and images taken at regularly spaced locations throughout the arena. A formal model, in which an agent attempts to minimize image differences between the reference image and current views, generated trajectories that could be compared with the search performance of rats. For both experiments, this model mimics many aspects of rat behavior. View-based navigation provides a sufficient and parsimonious explanation for a range of navigational behaviors of rats under these experimental conditions.

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“…Analogously to experiments mentioned above (27,28) we could discuss whether the animals encode local cues or some global geometric parameters, but it seems that in this experimental design the monkeys used not only properties of the stimulus itself but also used objects in the room to orient the stimuli with regard to response space.…”

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“…After reorientation they were tested in enclosures of transformed shapes (27,28). Even if the transformation of shapes destroyed Euclidean parameters of the enclosure, after disorientation the subjects displayed nonrandom choices among the corners of the test arena.…”

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Spatial decisions and cognitive strategies of monkeys and humans based on abstract spatial stimuli in rotation test

Nekovarova¹,

Nedvidek²,

Klement³

et al. 2009

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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We showed previously that macaque monkeys (Macaca mulatta) could orient in real space using abstract visual stimuli presented on a computer screen. They made correct choices according to both spatial stimuli (designed as an abstract representation of a real space) and nonspatial stimuli (pictures lacking any inner configuration information). However, we suggested that there were differences in processing spatial and nonspatial stimuli. In the present experiment we show that monkeys could also use as a cue abstract spatial stimuli rotated with respect to the real response space. We studied the ability of monkeys to decode abstract spatial information provided in one spatial frame (computer screen) and to perform spatial choices in another spatial frame (touch panel separated from the screen). We analyzed how the monkeys were affected by the type of training, whether they perceived the stimuli as ''spatial'' or ''nonspatial,'' and which cues they used to decode them. We compared humans to monkeys in a similar test to find out which cognitive strategy they used and whether they perceive spatial stimuli in the same way. We demonstrated that there were two possible strategies to solve the task, simple ''fitting'' ignoring rotations and ''remapping,'' when the stimulus was represented as an ''abstract space'' per se.spatial cognition ͉ geometry of space ͉ mental rotations

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Transfer of Spatial Behavior Between Different Environments: Implications for Theories of Spatial Learning and for the Role of the Hippocampus in Spatial Learning.

Cited by 115 publications

References 19 publications

The information content of panoramic images I: The rotational errors and the similarity of views in rectangular experimental arenas.

The information content of panoramic images I: The rotational errors and the similarity of views in rectangular experimental arenas.

The information content of panoramic images II: View-based navigation in nonrectangular experimental arenas.

Spatial decisions and cognitive strategies of monkeys and humans based on abstract spatial stimuli in rotation test

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