TY - JOUR
T1 - The effect of landmark and body-based sensory information on route knowledge
AU - Ruddle, Roy A.
AU - Volkova, Ekaterina
AU - Mohler, Betty
AU - Bülthoff, Heinrich H.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers awarded to R.A.R., as well as by the Max Planck Society and the WCU (World Class University) program through the National Research Foundation of Korea, funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (R31-2008-000-10008-0). We thank Michael Kerger and Michael Weyel for their technical assistance.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Two experiments investigated the effects of landmarks and body-based information on route knowledge. Participants made four out-and-back journeys along a route, guided only on the first outward trip and with feedback every time an error was made. Experiment 1 used 3-D virtual environments (VEs) with a desktop monitor display, and participants were provided with no supplementary landmarks, only global landmarks, only local landmarks, or both global and local landmarks. Local landmarks significantly reduced the number of errors that participants made, but global landmarks did not. Experiment 2 used a head-mounted display; here, participants who physically walked through the VE (translational and rotational body-based information) made 36% fewer errors than did participants who traveled by physically turning but changing position using a joystick. Overall, the experiments showed that participants were less sure of where to turn than which way, and journey direction interacted with sensory information to affect the number and types of errors participants made.
AB - Two experiments investigated the effects of landmarks and body-based information on route knowledge. Participants made four out-and-back journeys along a route, guided only on the first outward trip and with feedback every time an error was made. Experiment 1 used 3-D virtual environments (VEs) with a desktop monitor display, and participants were provided with no supplementary landmarks, only global landmarks, only local landmarks, or both global and local landmarks. Local landmarks significantly reduced the number of errors that participants made, but global landmarks did not. Experiment 2 used a head-mounted display; here, participants who physically walked through the VE (translational and rotational body-based information) made 36% fewer errors than did participants who traveled by physically turning but changing position using a joystick. Overall, the experiments showed that participants were less sure of where to turn than which way, and journey direction interacted with sensory information to affect the number and types of errors participants made.
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U2 - 10.3758/s13421-010-0054-z
DO - 10.3758/s13421-010-0054-z
M3 - Article
C2 - 21264583
AN - SCOPUS:80052172846
SN - 0090-502X
VL - 39
SP - 686
EP - 699
JO - Memory and Cognition
JF - Memory and Cognition
IS - 4
ER -