Intrinsic frames of reference in spatial memory

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	Intrinsic frames of reference in spatial memory
	Mou, WM ; McNamara, TP ; Timothy P. McNamara
刊名	JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
	2002
卷号	28 期号:1 页码:162-170
ISSN号	0278-7393
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	Three experiments investigated the frames of reference used in memory to represent the spatial structure of the environment. Participants learned the locations of objects in a room according to an intrinsic axis of the configuration; the axis was different from or the same as their viewing perspective. Judgments of relative direction using memory were most accurate for imagined headings parallel to the intrinsic axis, even when it differed from the viewing perspective, and there was no cost to learning the layout according to a nonegocentric axis. When the shape of the layout was bilaterally symmetric relative to the intrinsic axis of learning, novel headings orthogonal to that axis were retrieved more accurately than were other novel headings. These results indicate that spatial memories are defined with respect to intrinsic frames of reference, which are selected on the basis of egocentric experience and environmental cues.; Three experiments investigated the frames of reference used in memory to represent the spatial structure of the environment. Participants learned the locations of objects in a room according to an intrinsic axis of the configuration; the axis was different from or the same as their viewing perspective. Judgments of relative direction using memory were most accurate for imagined headings parallel to the intrinsic axis, even when it differed from the viewing perspective, and there was no cost to learning the layout according to a nonegocentric axis. When the shape of the layout was bilaterally symmetric relative to the intrinsic axis of learning, novel headings orthogonal to that axis were retrieved more accurately than were other novel headings. These results indicate that spatial memories are defined with respect to intrinsic frames of reference, which are selected on the basis of egocentric experience and environmental cues.
学科主题	认知心理学
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000173309500013
公开日期	2011-08-22
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/5496]
专题	心理研究所_中国科学院心理研究所回溯数据库(1956-2010)
通讯作者	Timothy P. McNamara
作者单位	1.Vanderbilt Univ, Dept Psychol, Nashville, TN 37203 USA 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mou, WM,McNamara, TP,Timothy P. McNamara. Intrinsic frames of reference in spatial memory[J]. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION,2002,28(1):162-170.
APA	Mou, WM,McNamara, TP,&Timothy P. McNamara.(2002).Intrinsic frames of reference in spatial memory.JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION,28(1),162-170.
MLA	Mou, WM,et al."Intrinsic frames of reference in spatial memory".JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION 28.1(2002):162-170.