Otmar Bock

Biographic Data

ID9299359
NAMEOtmar Bock
GIVEN NAMESOtmar
FAMILY NAMEBock
SIGNATUREBOCK O
AFFILIATIONSGerman Sport University Cologne
ORCID0000-0003-0485-6765
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Age-related changes in decision making with different wayfinding strategies

    Open AccessJu-Yi Huang, Daniel Memmert et al.ARTICLEPsychological Research2025

    Wayfinding skills are known to decay in older age. The present study investigated the differential effects of older age on five cognitive strategies that travelers can use for decision-making at intersections. To avoid interindividual and methodological biases, we used a within-person approach, and designed similar environments for all strategies. Thirty young and thirty older adults were asked to navigate five mazes that required decision-making…

  • The role of environmental contextual cues in sequence learning

    Open AccessIring Koch, Otmar BockARTICLEPsychological Research2024

    Studies on sequence learning usually focus on single, isolated stimuli that are presented sequentially. For example, in the serial reaction time (RT) task, stimuli are either presented in a predictable sequence or in a random sequence, and better performance with the predictable sequence is taken as evidence for sequence-specific learning. Yet, little is known about the role of environmental context cues in sequence learning. If the target stimul…

  • Effect of additional tasks on the reaction time of braking responses in simulated car driving

    Open AccessRobert Stojan, Otmar Bock et al.ARTICLEPsychological Research2024

  • The structure of cognitive strategies for wayfinding decisions

    Open AccessOtmar Bock, Ju-Yi Huang et al.ARTICLEPsychological Research2024

    Literature proposes five distinct cognitive strategies for wayfinding decisions at intersections. Our study investigates whether those strategies rely on a generalized decision-making process, on two frame-specific processes—one in an egocentric and the other in an allocentric spatial reference frame, and/or on five strategy-specific processes. Participants took six trips along a prescribed route through five virtual mazes, each designed for deci…

  • Acquisition of landmark, route, and survey knowledge in a wayfinding task

    Open AccessKyungwan Kim, Otmar BockARTICLEPsychological Research2021

    According to an influential concept, humans acquire spatial knowledge about their environment in three distinct stages: landmark knowledge is acquired first, then route knowledge, and finally survey knowledge. The stage concept has been challenged by studies which observed that in a wayfinding paradigm, route, and survey knowledge emerge at the same time and; therefore, were seemingly acquired in parallel. However, this experimental evidence is n…

  • Effects of practice on visuo-spatial attention in a wayfinding task

    Open AccessMai Geisen, K W Kim et al.ARTICLEPsychological Research2021

    Several studies have evaluated the distribution of visuo-spatial attention in a wayfinding task, using gaze direction as an indicator for the locus of attention. We extended that work by evaluating how visuo-spatial attention is modified by wayfinding practice. Young and older participants followed prescribed routes through a virtual city on six trials. Each trial was followed by a route recall test, where participants saw screenshots of intersec…

  • Subliminal primes for global or local processing influence judgments of vehicular traffic

    Open AccessStefanie Hüttermann, Otmar Bock et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2014