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When Do Objects Become Landmarks? A VR Study of the Effect of Task Relevance on Spatial Memory

We investigated how objects come to serve as landmarks in spatial memory, and more specifically how they form part of an allocentric cognitive map. Participants performing a virtual driving task incidentally learned the layout of a virtual town and locations of objects in that town. They were subseq...

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Autores principales: Han, Xue, Byrne, Patrick, Kahana, Michael, Becker, Suzanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3346813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22586455
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035940