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17972732

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-11-1
pubmed:abstractText
Determining one's current location and locating a goal relative to one's position are important components of successful human navigation in familiar environments. Several prominent cognitive theories of human spatial memory (e.g., McNamara, 2003; Sholl, 2001; Wang & Spelke, 2002) assume that both behaviors access the same enduring mental representations of the environment. Participants in the present experiment learned the locations of seven objects within a room from two views, and were then tested in a separate room using scene recognition and judgments of relative direction (JRD). Scene recognition results indicated that two viewer-centered representations of the layout of objects were preserved in long-term memory, whereas JRD showed evidence of a single orientation-dependent long-term mental representation. The challenges of incorporating the present findings into existing theories of human spatial memory are discussed.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1069-9384
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
14
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
676-80
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Different mental representations for place recognition and goal localization.
pubmed:affiliation
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural