The influence of landmark visualization style on task performance, visual attention, and spatial learning in a real-world navigation task

Kapaj, Armand; Hilton, Christopher; Lanini-Maggi, Sara; Fabrikant, Sara Irina

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“…The analysis was conducted only in terms of percent correct, with no analyses of serial position effects or other sequence scoring conventions and showed no overall performance difference between realistic and abstract visualisation styles. Kapaj et al (2023) also found no difference in landmark recognition performance between visualisation styles that may affect serial position memory differences.…”

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“…The present study only pertains to the data obtained in the landmark free reconstruction of order task. The other measures will be mentioned in the procedure for replicability and clarity, but for more detail and results regarding the other measures, refer to Kapaj et al (2023).…”

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“…Specifically, either the first half of the landmark sequence were realistic, and the latter half were abstract, or vice versa. The main results are presented in Kapaj et al, (2023) which aimed to assess the impact of navigation aid visualisation style on a range of spatial learning measures: navigation efficiency, landmark recognition, route direction knowledge, metric knowledge, and sequence knowledge. The measure of landmark sequence knowledge used a reconstruction of order task with an absolute scoring system whereby items were classified correct if they were placed in the correct position and incorrect for all other placements.…”

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“…In this study, we leverage the sequence data from Kapaj et al, (2023) to examine serial position effects for landmark knowledge in the two landmark visualisation conditions. The goal was to assess whether serial position effects for landmark memory would generalise from a highly controlled virtual navigation task to a more ecologically valid assessment of navigation.…”

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Landmark Sequence Learning from Real-World Route Navigation and the Impact of Navigation Aid Visualisation Style

Hilton¹,

Kapaj²,

Fabrikant³

2023

Journal of Cognition

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Primacy and recency features of serial memory are a hallmark of typical memory functions that have been observed for a wide array of tasks. Recently, the ubiquity of this serial position effect has been supported for objects learned during navigation, with canonical serial position functions observed for sequence memory of landmarks that were encountered along a route during a highly controlled virtual navigation task.In the present study, we extended those findings to a real-world navigation task in which participants actively walked a route through a city whilst using a navigation aid featuring either realistic or abstract landmark visualisation styles. Analyses of serial position functions (i.e., absolute sequence knowledge) and sequence lags (i.e., relative sequence knowledge) yielded similar profiles to those observed in a lab based virtual navigation task from previous work and non-spatial list learning studies. There were strong primacy effects for serial position memory in both conditions; recency effects only in the realistic visualisation condition; a non-uniform distribution of itemlags peaking at lag +1; and an overall bias towards positive lags for both visualisation conditions. The findings demonstrate that benchmark serial position memory effects can be observed in uncontrolled, real-world behaviour. In a navigation context, the results support the notion that general memory mechanisms are involved in spatial learning, and that landmark sequence knowledge is a feature of spatial knowledge which is affected by navigation aids.

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Landmark Sequence Learning from Real-World Route Navigation and the Impact of Navigation Aid Visualisation Style

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Fabrikant³

2023

Journal of Cognition

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Fixation-related potentials during mobile map assisted navigation in the real world: The effect of landmark visualization style

Hilton,

Kapaj,

Fabrikant

2024

Atten Percept Psychophys

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An often-proposed enhancement for mobile maps to aid assisted navigation is the presentation of landmark information, yet understanding of the manner in which they should be displayed is limited. In this study, we investigated whether the visualization of landmarks as 3D map symbols with either an abstract or realistic style influenced the subsequent processing of those landmarks during route navigation. We utilized a real-world mobile electroencephalography approach to this question by combining several tools developed to overcome the challenges typically encountered in real-world neuroscience research. We coregistered eye-movement and EEG recordings from 45 participants as they navigated through a real-world environment using a mobile map. Analyses of fixation event-related potentials revealed that the amplitude of the parietal P200 component was enhanced when participants fixated landmarks in the real world that were visualized on the mobile map in a realistic style, and that frontal P200 latencies were prolonged for landmarks depicted in either a realistic or abstract style compared with features of the environment that were not presented on the map, but only for the male participants. In contrast, we did not observe any significant effects of landmark visualization style on visual P1-N1 peaks or the parietal late positive component. Overall, the findings indicate that the cognitive matching process between landmarks seen in the environment and those previously seen on a map is facilitated by more realistic map display, while low-level perceptual processing of landmarks and recall of associated information are unaffected by map visualization style.

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The influence of landmark visualization style on task performance, visual attention, and spatial learning in a real-world navigation task

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Landmark Sequence Learning from Real-World Route Navigation and the Impact of Navigation Aid Visualisation Style

Landmark Sequence Learning from Real-World Route Navigation and the Impact of Navigation Aid Visualisation Style

Fixation-related potentials during mobile map assisted navigation in the real world: The effect of landmark visualization style

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