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Learning Directions of Objects Specified by Vision, Spatial Audition, or Auditory Spatial Language: Figure 1.

Year: 2002

Type: preprint

Abstract: The modality by which object azimuths (directions) are presented affects learning of multiple locations. In Experiment 1, participants learned sets of three and five object azimuths specified by a visual virtual environment, spatial audition (3D sound), or auditory spatial language. Five azimuths were learned faster when specified by spatial modalities (vision, audition) than by language. Experiment 2 equated the modalities for proprioceptive cues and eliminated spatial cues unique to vision (optic flow) and audition (differential binaural signals). There remained a learning disadvantage for spatial language. We attribute this result to the cost of indirect processing from words to spatial representations.

Source: Learning & Memory

DOI: 10.1101/lm.51702

Authors: Roberta L. Klatzky, Yvonne Lippa, Jack M. Loomis, Reginald G. Golledge

Institutions: Carnegie Mellon University, University of California, Santa Barbara

Language: English

Topic: Spatial Cognition and Navigation

Subfield: Automotive Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: National Eye Institute