Remembering Changes in Direction

• Edward K. Sadalla

  Environmental Psychology Doctoral Program at Arizona State University.

• Daniel R. Montello

抄録

Memory forturns of varying angularity encountered during pathway traversal was examined in a within-subjects design. Subjects walked eleven 8.3 m pathways, each containing one turn ranging in size from 150 to 1650 from the direction of forward motion. After each pathway traversalubjects were required to estimate the angle traversed, point to the original direction of travel, and point to the start of the pathway. Results indicated that paths containing angles near 00, 900, and 1800 from the direction of forward motion were the least disorienting and were most accurately remembered. Errors increased as angles diverged from these orthogonal coordinates. The data also revealed a pervasive tendency to estimate all angles as more like 900 than they actually were. Results were discussed in terms of hypothesized orthogonal reference axes that move through space with the observer.

収録刊行物

• Environment and Behavior

  Environment and Behavior 21 (3), 346-363, 1989-05

  SAGE Publications

キーワード

• General Environmental Science

詳細情報

• CRID: 1361699995306557952
• NII論文ID: 30026330576
• NII書誌ID: AA00176024
• DOI: 10.1177/0013916589213006
• ISSN: 1552390X
• ISSN: 00139165
• Web Site: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0013916589213006
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