Spatial memories of virtual environments: How egocentric experience, intrinsic structure, and extrinsic structure interact

From: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review | Date: April 1, 2008| Author: McNamara, Timothy P; Kelly, Jonathan W | Copyright information

Previous research has uncovered three primary cues that influence spatial memory organization: egocentric experience, intrinsic structure (object defined), and extrinsic structure (environment defined). In the present experiments, we assessed the relative importance of these cues when all three were available during learning. Participants learned layouts from two perspectives in immersive virtual reality. In Experiment 1, axes defined by intrinsic and extrinsic structures were in conflict, an...

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