Reorienting when Cues Conflict: A Role for Information Content in Spatial Learning?

Bradley R. Sturz, Katherine A. Gaskin

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Abstract

Human participants searched in dynamic three-dimensional virtual-environment rectangular enclosures. Unlike previous studies involving learning of features and geometry, we trained features and geometry separately before placing them in conflict. Specifically, participants learned to respond to rewarded features located along the principal axis of a rectangular search space and to respond to rewarded geometry of a rectangular search space in separate training phases followed by a single test trial. During the Test trial, features and geometry were placed in conflict by situating rewarded bins during feature training in unrewarded geometric corners from geometry training and unrewarded bins during feature training in rewarded geometric corners from geometry training. Results provide converging evidence against a view-based matching account of spatial learning, appear inconsistent with standard associative-based accounts of spatial learning, and suggest that information content of spatial cues may play an important role in spatial learning.
Original languageAmerican English
StatePublished - 2010
EventPsychonomic Society Annual Meeting - St. Louis, United States
Duration: Jan 1 2010 → …
Conference number: 51
https://www.psychonomic.org/resource/resmgr/annual_meeting/past_and_future_meetings/2010/abstracts10.pdf (Link to abstracts)

Conference

ConferencePsychonomic Society Annual Meeting
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySt. Louis
Period01/1/10 → …
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Disciplines

  • Cognition and Perception
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychology

Keywords

  • principal axis
  • rectangular enclosures
  • spatial learning
  • test trial
  • virtual-environment

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