Multiple systems of spatial memory and action

Avraamides, Marios N.; Kelly, Jonathan W.

doi:10.1007/s10339-007-0188-5

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“…The presence of both encoding and sensorimotor alignment effects in latency is compatible with the idea that people maintain multiple spatial representations when encoding locations in memory (Avraamides & Kelly, 2008;Mou & McNamara, 2002;Waller & Hodgson, 2006). The encoding alignment effect suggests that participants constructed an enduring spatial representation based on their initial orientation during learning, while the additional sensorimotor alignment effect indicates that they also maintained a more transient representation, which they updated during their physical rotation towards a new orientation before testing.…”

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“…The extensive physical movement during encoding in Experiment 1 might have encouraged participants to link the remote imagined environment to an updatable sensorimotor framework, which is believed to govern the encoding of spatial relations in one's immediate surroundings (Avraamides & Kelly, 2008;May, 2004). To explore the extent of movement that is needed for this linking to occur, in Experiment 2 we eliminated physical walking towards objects and asked participants to rotate physically to the direction of each object but only imagine walking to it.…”

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Updating spatial relations to remote locations described in narratives

2016

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In four experiments we examined whether sensorimotor encoding influences readers' reasoning about spatial scenes acquired through narratives. Participants read a narrative that described the geometry of a store and then pointed to the memorized locations of described objects from imagined perspectives. In Experiment 1, participants walked during learning towards the direction of every described object and then visualized these objects as being in the immediate environment. In Experiment 2 they rotated their body to the direction of the described objects instead of walking to them, while in Experiment 3 they only turned their heads towards the objects. In Experiment 4, we eliminated the instructions to visualize the objects altogether. Results from the first three experiments revealed a performance benefit for responding from the perspective that participants physically occupied at testing. However, results from Experiment 4 showed that only participants who, in a post-task questionnaire, indicated that they had linked the described environment to their immediate environment exhibited such a benefit. Findings indicate that (1) the physical change in orientation influences reasoning about described environments if the remote environments are linked to participants' sensorimotor framework and, (2) visualization instructions are sufficient to produce such a link.

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Updating spatial relations to remote locations described in narratives

2016

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“…Two hypotheses have been put forward to account for this finding (Avraamides & Kelly, 2008;May, 2004). Drawing a parallel with classical studies on mental imagery, the mental transformation hypothesis states that the transformation costs in relation to spatial perspective taking are primarily related to the switching from the actual location and perspective into the imagined location and spatial perspective (Rieser, 1989).…”

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Imagined own-body transformations during passive self-motion

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2013

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Spatial perspective taking is a crucial social skill that underlies many of our everyday interactions. Previous studies have suggested that spatial perspective taking is an embodied process that involves the integration of both motor and proprioceptive information. Given the importance of vestibular signals for own-body perception, mental own-body imagery, and bodily self-consciousness, in the present study we hypothesized that vestibular stimulation due to passive own-body displacements should also modulate spatial perspective taking. Participants performed an own-body transformation task while being passively rotated in a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction on a human motion platform. A congruency effect was observed, reflected in faster reaction times if the implied mental body rotation direction matched the actual rotation direction of the chair. These findings indicate that vestibular stimulation modulates and facilitates mental perspective taking, thereby highlighting the importance of integrating multisensory bodily information for spatial perspective taking.

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“…Most current theories of spatial cognition agree on the dichotomy of an online spatial-updating system and an offline spatial memory system (Avraamides & Kelly, 2008;Burgess, 2006;Mou, Fan, McNamara, & Owen, 2008;Sholl, 2001;Waller & Hodgson, 2006;Wang & Spelke, 2002). In most circumstances, the spatial-updating system keeps track of the individual's immediate real environment (online spatial representation) but not remote and/or imagined environments (offline spatial memories).…”

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“…In most circumstances, the spatial-updating system keeps track of the individual's immediate real environment (online spatial representation) but not remote and/or imagined environments (offline spatial memories). Only under certain conditions, which encourage people to connect the spatialupdating system and the retrieved spatial memory, are people able to update the remote and/or imagined environment (Avraamides, Galati, & Papadopoulou, 2013;Avraamides & Kelly, 2008;Kelly et al, 2007). One such condition may be when people are asked to imagine that they are in a distal environment surrounded by target objects.…”

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Spatial updating of map-acquired representation

2015

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In the present study, we examined whether people can update a map-acquired spatial representation. The participants learned a spatial layout from a map displayed on a computer screen, and then performed spatial judgments at a novel position either in the same room (Exp. 1) or in a distal room (Exp. 2). They were required to imagine the spatial layout from a perspective aligned with the learning direction, aligned with their facing direction during testing, or toward a novel direction misaligned with the two directions mentioned above. In both the immediate and nonimmediate environments, the participants performed better from the learning direction than from the novel direction, and also performed better from the facing direction than from the novel direction. These results reveal that people establish an orientationspecific spatial representation through map learning, and that they can update a map-acquired representation during locomotion.

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Multiple systems of spatial memory and action

Cited by 95 publications

References 76 publications

Updating spatial relations to remote locations described in narratives

Updating spatial relations to remote locations described in narratives

Imagined own-body transformations during passive self-motion

Spatial updating of map-acquired representation

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