ABSTRACT

We present a detailed analysis of a widely used assay in human spatial cognition, the judgments of relative direction (JRD) task. We conducted three experiments involving virtual navigation interspersed with the JRD task, and included confidence judgments and map drawing as additional metrics. We also present a technique for assessing the similarity of the cognitive representations underlying performance on the JRD and map-drawing tasks. Our results support the construct validity of the JRD task and its connection to allocentric representation. Additionally, we found that chance performance on the JRD task depends on the distribution of the angles of participants’ responses, rather than being constant and 90 degrees. Accordingly, we present a method for better determining chance performance.

摘要

我们对人类空间认知中广泛使用的检测方法——相对方向判断（JRD）任务进行了详细分析。我们进行了三个实验，涉及虚拟导航和 JRD 任务，并包括置信度判断和地图绘制作为附加指标。我们还提出了一种技术，用于评估 JRD 和地图绘制任务表现背后的认知表征的相似性。我们的结果支持 JRD 任务的结构有效性及其与异中心表征的联系。此外，我们发现 JRD 任务的机会表现取决于参与者反应角度的分布，而不是恒定的 90 度。因此，我们提出了一种更好地确定机​​会表现的方法。