Cognitive transfer of spatial awareness states from immersive virtual environments to reality

摘要: An individual's prior experience will influence how new visual information in a scene is perceived and remembered. Accuracy of memory performance per se an imperfect reflection the cognitive activity (awareness states) that underlies tasks. The aim this research to investigate effect varied fidelity training environments on transfer real world after exposure immersive simulations representing real-world scene. A between groups experiment was carried out explore rendering quality measurements location-based recognition for objects associated states awareness. simulation consisted one room either rendered flat-shaded or using radiosity rendering. displayed stereo head-tracked head mounted display. Post synthetic simulation, participants completed task conducted by physically arranging their physical form room. Participants also reported four awareness following object recognition. They were given several options reflected level mental imagery involved during retrieval, familiarity recollection related guesses. incorporated “fitted” into specific context scene, referred as consistent objects, not inconsistent objects. follow-up study week initial test. Interestingly, results revealed higher proportion correct with when exposed low-fidelity scenes rather than ones. Memory psychology indicates based require stronger attentional processing first instance those familiarity. tentative claim would, therefore, be are distinctive because variation from “real,” such environments, recruit resources. This additional may bring about change participants' subjective experiences “remembering” they later environment situation.