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Direct linkFoo, Patrick; Warren, William H.; Duchon, Andrew; Tarr, Michael J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
Do humans integrate experience on specific routes into metric survey knowledge of the environment, or do they depend on a simpler strategy of landmark navigation? The authors tested this question using a novel shortcut paradigm during walking in a virtual environment. The authors find that participants could not take successful shortcuts in a…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Psychological Studies, Cognitive Mapping, Computer Simulation
