Place learning in humans: The role of distance and direction information

摘要: Although the process of establishing a memory location is necessary for navigation, relatively little known about information that humans use when forming place memories. We examined relative importance distance and angular landmarks in learning. Participants repeatedly learned target relation to three distinct an immersive computer-generated (virtual) environment. Later, during testing, they attempted return location. The configurations used testing were altered from those participants order separate effects metric inter-landmark angles. In general, showed greater reliance on than information. This was affected by nonmetric relationships present learning, as well degree which environment contained right or straight