ABSTRACT

Spatial memory plays an important role in everyday life, and a large amount of research has been devoted to understanding spatial coding and reference frames across many areas. The popular research paradigms to study spatial reference frames include novel shortcut, perspective change, and landmark control tests. However, the growing research on spatial updating challenges the logical foundation of these classical paradigms, and suggests that the experimental findings using these paradigms have usually been misinterpreted. That is, performance in these tasks is generally unrelated to whether the spatial representations themselves are egocentric or allocentric. This article reviews the traditional paradigms and their logic, summarizes the theories of spatial updating, analyzes the logical flaws in these popular paradigms, and discusses their implications.

摘要

空间记忆在日常生活中起着重要作用，并且大量研究致力于理解许多领域的空间编码和参考框架。研究空间参考系的流行研究范式包括新颖的快捷方式，视角变化和界标控制测试。但是，关于空间更新的日益增长的研究挑战了这些经典范式的逻辑基础，并表明使用这些范式的实验结果通常被误解了。也就是说，在这些任务中的执行通常与空间表示本身是否以自我为中心或同心为中心无关。本文回顾了传统范式及其逻辑，总结了空间更新的理论，分析了这些流行范式的逻辑缺陷，