The role of visual and spatial working memory in forming mental models derived from survey and route descriptions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9620784 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chiara Meneghetti (0000-0002-1838-7958, Department of General Psychology University of Padua Italy, corresponding author), Enia Labate (Department of General Psychology University of Padua Italy), Francesca Pazzaglia (0000-0002-3446-3826, Department of General Psychology University of Padua Italy), Colin Hamilton (0000-0001-5099-6449, Department of Psychology Northumbria University Newcastle upon Tyne UK), Valérie Gyselinck (0000-0001-9715-6148, Memory & Cognition Lab Inserm UMR S894 & Mobility and Behavior Psychology Lab, IFSTTAR Paris Descartes University Paris France) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 225-243 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1269 • E-ISSN: 2044-8295 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/bjop.12193 |
| PMID | 26968751 |
| OpenAlex | W2293574279 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 37 |
This study examines the involvement of spatial and visual working memory ( WM ) in the construction of flexible spatial models derived from survey and route descriptions. Sixty young adults listened to environment descriptions, 30 from a survey perspective and the other 30 from a route perspective, while they performed spatial (spatial tapping [ ST ]) and visual (dynamic visual noise [ DVN ]) secondary tasks – believed to overload the spatial and visual working memory ( WM ) components, respectively – or no secondary task (control, C ). Their mental representations of the environment were tested by free recall and a verification test with both route and survey statements. Results showed that, for both recall tasks, accuracy was worse in the ST than in the C or DVN conditions. In the verification test, the effect of both ST and DVN was a decreasing accuracy for sentences testing spatial relations from the opposite perspective to the one learnt than if the perspective was the same; only ST had a stronger interference effect than the C condition for sentences from the opposite perspective from the one learnt. Overall, these findings indicate that both visual and spatial WM , and especially the latter, are involved in the construction of perspective‐flexible spatial models
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Geography · Mental image · Perspective (graphical) · Recall · Spatial Ability · Spatial analysis · Spatial memory · Spatial reference system · Spatial relation · Task (project management) · Test (biology) · Working memory · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Ecology · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Geography Education and Pedagogy · Neuroscience · Psychology · Spatial Cognition and Navigation
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |