Challenging Assumptions About Location Memory
Open Access Depositeddistance information was more important than direction information across multiple analyses and in a way that varied consistently across observers, and a single attribute affects distance and direction error differently. Third, a process that should have lowered direction error more at greater landmark-target distances if recognition was used in remembering locations based on spatial layouts did in fact lower direction error more at greater landmark-target distances.
Location memory has until now been studied assuming a model known as the standard model. This model assumes, among other things, that landmarks provide location memory information solely as individual entities when not part of a configuration, that distance and direction information from each landmark are processed as the components of landmark-target vectors, and that recalling a location based on the spatial layout is dependent on recall. The current research provides evidence that additional variables must be integrated into the standard model. First, location information integration superior to optimal integration predicted by the standard model was found and, accordingly, the average recalled target location was found to be in line with treating even a pair of landmarks as a collective. Second, distinct processing of distance and direction in location memory was found in two ways
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