Distance cognition in virtual environmental space : further investigations to clarify the route-angularity
Deutscher übersetzter Titel: | Distanzwahrnehmung in einer virtuellen Umgebung : weitere Untersuchungen zur Klärung des Einflusses von Abbiegungen |
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Autor: | Jansen-Osmann, Petra; Wiedenbauer, Gunnar |
Erschienen in: | Psychological research |
Veröffentlicht: | 70 (2006), 1, S. 43-51, Lit. |
Format: | Literatur (SPOLIT) |
Publikationstyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
Medienart: | Gedruckte Ressource |
Sprache: | Englisch |
ISSN: | 0340-0727, 1430-2772, 0033-3026 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00426-004-0183-8 |
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Erfassungsnummer: | PU200911006341 |
Quelle: | BISp |
Abstract
Two experiments with 72 participants in total investigated the route-angularity effect. This effect is shown when a greater number of turns along a route increase the estimated length of this route. In this study it was shown that the route-angularity effect is likely to be a memory-based effect depending on task difficulty. The important factor seems to be how heavily memory is loaded during learning. The route-angularity effect even appears in intentional learning, when memory is loaded heavily. Under this learning condition participants know beforehand that they have to estimate distances. All experiments were conducted in a controlled virtual environment, which allows a reliable investigation of distance estimations in environmental space. Verf.-Referat