Wayfinding Strategies in Behavior and Language: A Symmetric and Interdisciplinary Approach to Cognitive Processes

Tenbrink, Thora; Wiener, Jan

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-75666-8_23

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“…Recent neuropsychological and neuroimaging evidence supports the hypothesis of a connection between the systems required for spatial navigation and narrative processing in humans (Tenbrink & Wiener, 2007). From this point of view, those skills that are required to plan an ideal route and monitor its progress while inhibiting unnecessary derailments may play an important role also in the ability to coherently link concepts in a story format by controlling what has been previously said, integrating it with incoming information and inhibiting the production of tangential utterances.…”

Section: Unveiling the Relation Between Spatial Navigation And Narratmentioning

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Keeping the route and speaking coherently: The hidden link between spatial navigation and discourse processing

Ferretti

Adornetti

Cosentino

et al. 2013

Journal of Neurolinguistics

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Section: Unveiling the Relation Between Spatial Navigation And Narratmentioning

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Keeping the route and speaking coherently: The hidden link between spatial navigation and discourse processing

Ferretti

Adornetti

Cosentino

et al. 2013

Journal of Neurolinguistics

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“…In another account (based on a navigational TSP variant), humans start out by conceptualizing the trajectory first on a coarse level of precision, for example, by imagining the path as an approximate circle or other kind of regular pattern. Then they decide on the specific steps to take by inserting detours from the general trajectory (Tenbrink and Wiener 2007). We call this strategy the trajectory-based method.…”

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The verbalization of multiple strategies in a variant of the traveling salesperson problem

Tenbrink

Wiener

2008

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What kinds of strategies do humans employ when confronted with a complex spatial task, and how do they verbalize these strategies? Previous research concerned with the well-known traveling salesperson problem (TSP) typically aimed at the identification of a generally applicable heuristics that adequately represents human behavior in relation to the abstract task of combining points. This paper adopts a novel perspective in two respects. On the one hand, it addresses the strategies people employ when confronted with a more complex task, involving distractors and feature information rather than identical points. On the other hand, retrospective linguistic representations of the strategies used are analyzed in relation to the behavioral data, using discourse analytic methods. Results show that both the behavioral results and the verbalizations point to a range of strategies related to those proposed for solving abstract TSPs. However, in contrast to earlier accounts in the literature, the participants employ a repertory of multi-faceted strategies and planning processes, simplifying and structuring the problem space across subtasks and processes in flexible ways. These findings provide further insight into the nature of human strategies in spatial problem solving tasks and their retrospective verbalization, highlighting how procedures generally known in the literature may be adapted to more complex tasks, and how they may be verbalized spontaneously.

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“…We replicated Büchner et al's (2009) experimental design but in a complex, real-world built environment. In addition, we incorporated interviews which have the potential to reveal the cognitive strategies that influence and underly everyday navigation in complex-built environments (Hölscher et al, 2006;Tenbrink & Wiener, 2007;Spiers & Maguire, 2006.…”

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“…A similar approach was taken by Tenbrink & Wiener (2007), who asked participants to plan and navigate the shortest possible route to connect nine target locations in a roomsized environment (Travelling Salesperson Problem: TSP). In such tasks it is difficult to analyse the chosen strategy simply by studying the resulting trajectories, as different strategic approaches can lead to similar trajectories.…”

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Searching in an unfamiliar environment: a phenomenologically informed experiment

Alcock,

Hardman,

Wiener

2023

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Wayfinding is generally understood as the process of purposefully navigating to distant and non-visible destinations. Within this broad framework, uninformed searching entails finding one’s way to a target destination, in an unfamiliar environment, with no knowledge of its location. Although a variety of search strategies have been previously reported, this research was largely conducted in the laboratory or virtual environments using simplistic and often non-realistic situations, raising questions about its ecological validity. In this study, we explored how extant findings on searching translate to a real-world environment, using a phenomenologically informed experiment. Our findings demonstrate a previously undescribed complex and dynamic interplay of different search strategies. Importantly, our results reveal that: (i) the presence of other people is importantly entangled with the process of searching; and (ii) people frequently probe and switch between search strategies based on local environmental characteristics. Together, our results reveal that search behaviour is critically dependent on environmental features and that search in complex real-world settings should not be conceptualised as depending on a simple singular strategy. This raises questions about the dominance of laboratory-based experiments and highlights the value in studying wayfinding in the real world.

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Wayfinding Strategies in Behavior and Language: A Symmetric and Interdisciplinary Approach to Cognitive Processes

Cited by 7 publications

References 47 publications

Keeping the route and speaking coherently: The hidden link between spatial navigation and discourse processing

Keeping the route and speaking coherently: The hidden link between spatial navigation and discourse processing

The verbalization of multiple strategies in a variant of the traveling salesperson problem

Searching in an unfamiliar environment: a phenomenologically informed experiment

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