In 2 spatial navigation experiments, human participants were asked to find a hidden goal (a WiFi signal) that was located in 1 of the right-angled corners of a kite-shaped (Experiment 1) or a cross-shaped (Experiment 2) virtual environment. Goal location was defined solely with respect to the geometry of the environment. Following this training, in a test conducted in extinction, participants were placed onto the outside of the same environments and asked to locate the WiFi signal. The results of both experiments revealed that participants spent more time searching in regions on the outside of the environments that were closest to where the WiFi signal was located during training. These results are difficult to explain in terms of analyses of spatial navigation and reorientation that emphasize the role of local representational encoding or view matching. Instead, we suggest that these results are better understood in terms of a global representation of the shape of the environment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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跨越边界：从竞技场的内部转移到外部之后的全局重新定向。

在2个空间导航实验中，要求人类参与者找到位于风筝形（实验1）或十字形（实验2）虚拟的直角角之一中的隐藏目标（WiFi信号）环境。目标位置仅根据环境的几何形状定义。经过这次培训后，在一项灭绝测试中，参与者被置于相同环境的外部，并被要求定位WiFi信号。这两个实验的结果表明，参与者在训练过程中花费了更多的时间搜索环境外部最接近WiFi信号的区域。从强调局部表示编码或视图匹配作用的空间导航和重新定向的分析方面，很难解释这些结果。相反，我们建议从环境形状的全局表示的角度更好地理解这些结果。（PsycINFO数据库记录（c）2019 APA，保留所有权利）。