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The influence of encoding and testing directions on retrieval of spatial information in explored and described environments
The Journal of General Psychology ( IF 2.014 ) Pub Date : 2019-12-06 , DOI: 10.1080/00221309.2019.1696741
Ilaria Santoro 1 , Fabrizio Sors 1 , Serena Mingolo 1 , Valter Prpic 2 , Michele Grassi 1 , Tiziano Agostini 1 , Mauro Murgia 1
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Abstract

The verbal descriptions of an environment elicit a spatial mental model, in which the linear disposition of the described objects might be related to the properties of the description. In particular the direction from which the environment is encoded might shape the spatial mental model, as a consequence of a cultural bias in reading and writing direction. The aim of the present study was to examine the influence of the direction in which objects are encoded on the retrieval of spatial information. In two experiments we asked participants to encode an environment through either physical exploration or verbal description, that are encoding modalities which preserve the sequential presentation of spatial information. We manipulated both the encoding and testing directions of the spatial information, and tested participants by using a two-alternative forced choice task. In both experiments, the results did not reveal any significant effect, disconfirming the idea of the left-right cultural bias for western people for this type of task. The lack of effect suggests that encoding an environment through physical movement and verbal descriptions determines the development of a mental representation which is relatively independent from encoding sequential order.



中文翻译:

编码和测试方向对探索和描述环境中空间信息检索的影响

摘要

对环境的口头描述引发了空间心智模型,其中所描述对象的线性倾向可能与描述的属性有关。特别是环境编码的方向可能会塑造空间心智模型,这是阅读和写作方向的文化偏见的结果。本研究的目的是检查对象编码方向对空间信息检索的影响。在两个实验中,我们要求参与者通过物理探索或口头描述对环境进行编码,这些编码方式可以保留空间信息的顺序呈现。我们操纵了空间信息的编码和测试方向,并通过使用两种可选的强制选择任务测试参与者。在这两个实验中,结果都没有显示出任何显着影响,否定了西方人在执行此类任务时存在左右文化偏见的想法。缺乏效果表明通过身体运动和语言描述对环境进行编码决定了心理表征的发展,这种表征与编码顺序顺序相对独立。

更新日期:2019-12-06
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