Spatial Influence of Environmental Axes in a Baseball Field |
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| Authors: | Julia Sluzenski Chiara Meneghetti Timothy McNamara |
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| Institution: | 1. The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey , Galloway, New Jersey, USA;2. Padua University , Padua, Italy;3. Vanderbilt University , Nashville, Tennessee, USA |
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| Abstract: | Abstract We investigated the influence of environmental axes in a baseball field. In Experiment 1, participants walked either a path in the prototypical orientation (home plate to second base) or one which was rotated 225°. Recall for object locations was best when participants imagined themselves aligned with axes salient from the experienced orientation. In Experiment 2, when learning was through a route text, there was less of an influence of environmental axes. In Experiment 3, when participants walked both paths, memories were good for the atypical orientation, suggesting that task-specific spatial cues can be more influential than a prior conceptual north. |
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| Keywords: | spatial memory navigation reference frames |
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