Landmark Sequence Learning from Real-World Route Navigation and the Impact of Navigation Aid Visualisation Style
Primacy and recency features of serial memory are a hallmark of typical memory functions that have been observed for a wide array of tasks. Recently, the ubiquity of this serial position effect has been supported for objects learned during navigation, with canonical serial position functions observe...
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| description | Primacy and recency features of serial memory are a hallmark of typical memory functions that have been observed for a wide array of tasks. Recently, the ubiquity of this serial position effect has been supported for objects learned during navigation, with canonical serial position functions observed for sequence memory of landmarks that were encountered along a route during a highly controlled virtual navigation task. In the present study, we extended those findings to a real-world navigation task in which participants actively walked a route through a city whilst using a navigation aid featuring either realistic or abstract landmark visualisation styles. Analyses of serial position functions (i.e., absolute sequence knowledge) and sequence lags (i.e., relative sequence knowledge) yielded similar profiles to those observed in a lab based virtual navigation task from previous work and non-spatial list learning studies. There were strong primacy effects for serial position memory in both conditions; recency effects only in the realistic visualisation condition; a non-uniform distribution of item-lags peaking at lag +1; and an overall bias towards positive lags for both visualisation conditions. The findings demonstrate that benchmark serial position memory effects can be observed in uncontrolled, real-world behaviour. In a navigation context, the results support the notion that general memory mechanisms are involved in spatial learning, and that landmark sequence knowledge is a feature of spatial knowledge which is affected by navigation aids. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ca70b6cc63c04133a5d5fdc4c385b8822023-08-09T13:58:55ZengUbiquity PressJournal of Cognition2514-48202023-07-0161414110.5334/joc.307306Landmark Sequence Learning from Real-World Route Navigation and the Impact of Navigation Aid Visualisation StyleChristopher Hilton0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9386-6935Armand Kapaj1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1785-7348Sara I. Fabrikant2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1263-8792Geographic Information Visualization & Analysis (GIVA), Department of Geography and Digital Society Initiative, University of ZurichGeographic Information Visualization & Analysis (GIVA), Department of Geography and Digital Society Initiative, University of ZurichGeographic Information Visualization & Analysis (GIVA), Department of Geography and Digital Society Initiative, University of ZurichPrimacy and recency features of serial memory are a hallmark of typical memory functions that have been observed for a wide array of tasks. Recently, the ubiquity of this serial position effect has been supported for objects learned during navigation, with canonical serial position functions observed for sequence memory of landmarks that were encountered along a route during a highly controlled virtual navigation task. In the present study, we extended those findings to a real-world navigation task in which participants actively walked a route through a city whilst using a navigation aid featuring either realistic or abstract landmark visualisation styles. Analyses of serial position functions (i.e., absolute sequence knowledge) and sequence lags (i.e., relative sequence knowledge) yielded similar profiles to those observed in a lab based virtual navigation task from previous work and non-spatial list learning studies. There were strong primacy effects for serial position memory in both conditions; recency effects only in the realistic visualisation condition; a non-uniform distribution of item-lags peaking at lag +1; and an overall bias towards positive lags for both visualisation conditions. The findings demonstrate that benchmark serial position memory effects can be observed in uncontrolled, real-world behaviour. In a navigation context, the results support the notion that general memory mechanisms are involved in spatial learning, and that landmark sequence knowledge is a feature of spatial knowledge which is affected by navigation aids.https://account.journalofcognition.org/index.php/up-j-jc/article/view/307serial memoryroute learningassisted navigation |
| spellingShingle | Christopher Hilton Armand Kapaj Sara I. Fabrikant Landmark Sequence Learning from Real-World Route Navigation and the Impact of Navigation Aid Visualisation Style Journal of Cognition serial memory route learning assisted navigation |
| title | Landmark Sequence Learning from Real-World Route Navigation and the Impact of Navigation Aid Visualisation Style |
| title_full | Landmark Sequence Learning from Real-World Route Navigation and the Impact of Navigation Aid Visualisation Style |
| title_fullStr | Landmark Sequence Learning from Real-World Route Navigation and the Impact of Navigation Aid Visualisation Style |
| title_full_unstemmed | Landmark Sequence Learning from Real-World Route Navigation and the Impact of Navigation Aid Visualisation Style |
| title_short | Landmark Sequence Learning from Real-World Route Navigation and the Impact of Navigation Aid Visualisation Style |
| title_sort | landmark sequence learning from real world route navigation and the impact of navigation aid visualisation style |
| topic | serial memory route learning assisted navigation |
| url | https://account.journalofcognition.org/index.php/up-j-jc/article/view/307 |
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