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Yang, Yingying; Li, Weijia; Wang, Qi – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2022
Relatively few studies have directly examined children's memory of object-based spatial structure of room-sized environments. The current study investigated how children remember the spatial structure of a room, and the role of pictorial working memory (WM) and different testing perspectives in this process. In Experiment 1, 80 children aged 5 to…
Descriptors: Young Children, Spatial Ability, Memory, Short Term Memory
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Holmes, Corinne A.; Marchette, Steven A.; Newcombe, Nora S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
In the real word, we perceive our environment as a series of static and dynamic views, with viewpoint transitions providing a natural link from one static view to the next. The current research examined if experiencing such transitions is fundamental to learning the spatial layout of small-scale displays. In Experiment 1, participants viewed a…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Perspective Taking, Memory, Cognitive Processes
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McNeal, Peggy; Ellis, Todd; Petcovic, Heather – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2018
A survey with nine meteorological charts, maps, and images from a 2015 significant weather event was administered to meteorologists (N = 93) to identify which spatial thinking skills they report using with each chart, map, and image. Results reveal high reported use of mental animation (74.6%), disembedding (72.4%), and perspective taking (71.6%)…
Descriptors: Meteorology, Spatial Ability, Charts, Maps
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Galati, Alexia; Michael, Christina; Mello, Catherine; Greenauer, Nathan M.; Avraamides, Marios N. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2013
We examined whether people spontaneously represent the partner's viewpoint in spatial memory when it is available in advance and whether they adapt their spontaneous descriptions accordingly. In 18 pairs, Directors studied arrays of objects while: (1) not knowing about having to describe the array to a Matcher, (2) knowing about the subsequent…
Descriptors: Memory, Spatial Ability, Interpersonal Communication, Perspective Taking
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Stevens, Christopher A.; Carlson, Richard A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Many studies have examined how people recall the locations of objects in spatial layouts. However, little is known about how people monitor the accuracy of judgments based on those memories. The goal of the present experiments was to examine the effect of reference frame characteristics on metacognitive accuracy for spatial judgments. Reference…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Metacognition, Undergraduate Students, Perspective Taking
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Burns, Patrick; Russell, James; Russell, Charlotte – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2016
It is usually accepted that the binding of what, where, and when is a central component of young children's and animals' nonconceptual episodic abilities. We argue that additionally binding self-in-past (what-where-when-"who") adds a crucial conceptual requirement, and we ask when it becomes possible and what its cognitive correlates…
Descriptors: Young Children, Memory, Visual Stimuli, Video Technology
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Street, Whitney N.; Wang, Ranxiao Frances – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
The perspective-taking task is one of the most common paradigms used to study the nature of spatial memory, and better performance for certain orientations is generally interpreted as evidence of spatial representations using these reference directions. However, performance advantages can also result from the relative ease in certain…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Experimental Psychology, Spatial Ability, Memory
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Yerramsetti, Ashok; Marchette, Steven A.; Shelton, Amy L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Orientation dependence in spatial memory has often been interpreted in terms of accessibility: Object locations are encoded relative to a reference orientation that affords the most accurate access to spatial memory. An open question, however, is whether people naturally use this "preferred" orientation whenever recalling the space. We…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Spatial Ability, Memory, Familiarity
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Mou, Weimin; Zhou, Ruojing – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Four experiments examined the roles of extended surfaces and the number of points in the boundary superiority effect in goal localization. Participants learned the locations of 4 objects in the presence of a boundary, landmarks, or both in an immersive virtual environment by reproducing the locations with feedback. Participants then localized the…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Feedback (Response), Geographic Location, Memory
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Avraamides, Marios N.; Kelly, Jonathan W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Recent models in spatial cognition posit that distinct memory systems are responsible for maintaining transient and enduring spatial relations. The authors used perspective-taking performance to assess the presence of these enduring and transient spatial memories for locations encoded through verbal descriptions. Across 3 experiments, spatial…
Descriptors: Memory, Spatial Ability, Models, Perspective Taking
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Kelly, Jonathan W.; Avraamides, Marios N. – Cognition, 2011
Two experiments investigated whether visual cues influence spatial reference frame selection for locations learned through touch. Participants experienced visual cues emphasizing specific environmental axes and later learned objects through touch. Visual cues were manipulated and haptic learning conditions were held constant. Imagined perspective…
Descriptors: Cues, Perspective Taking, Memory, Spatial Ability
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Shelton, Amy L.; McNamara, Timothy P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2004
Three experiments investigated the role of egocentric orientation in subsequent memory for layouts learned via route (ground-level) and survey (aerial or overview) perspectives. Participants learned virtual environments from text descriptions (Experiment 1) or visual presentation (Experiments 1-3). In all experiments, scene recognition for route…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Recognition (Psychology), Visual Perception, Perspective Taking
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Silverman, Irwin W. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1994
The effects of training on first, third, and fifth graders' spatial perspective taking with multiobject two-dimensional arrays were assessed in two studies. Found that, on an immediate test of retention, performance was significantly better for those subjects trained with feedback present than for nontrained students. (MDM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Competence, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students