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An Adaptive Cue Selection Model of Allocentric Spatial Reorientation
After becoming disoriented, an organism must use the local environment to reorient and recover vectors to important locations. A new theory, adaptive combination, suggests that the information from different spatial cues is combined with Bayesian efficiency during reorientation. To test this further...
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American Psychological Association
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8582329/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34766823 http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000950 |
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description | After becoming disoriented, an organism must use the local environment to reorient and recover vectors to important locations. A new theory, adaptive combination, suggests that the information from different spatial cues is combined with Bayesian efficiency during reorientation. To test this further, we modified the standard reorientation paradigm to be more amenable to Bayesian cue combination analyses while still requiring reorientation in an allocentric (i.e., world-based, not egocentric) frame. Twelve adults and 20 children at ages 5 to 7 years old were asked to recall locations in a virtual environment after a disorientation. Results were not consistent with adaptive combination. Instead, they are consistent with the use of the most useful (nearest) single landmark in isolation. We term this adaptive selection. Experiment 2 suggests that adults also use the adaptive selection method when they are not disoriented but are still required to use a local allocentric frame. This suggests that the process of recalling a location in the allocentric frame is typically guided by the single most useful landmark rather than a Bayesian combination of landmarks. These results illustrate that there can be important limits to Bayesian theories of the cognition, particularly for complex tasks such as allocentric recall. |
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spelling | pubmed-85823292021-11-18 An Adaptive Cue Selection Model of Allocentric Spatial Reorientation Negen, James Bird, Laura-Ashleigh Nardini, Marko J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform Articles After becoming disoriented, an organism must use the local environment to reorient and recover vectors to important locations. A new theory, adaptive combination, suggests that the information from different spatial cues is combined with Bayesian efficiency during reorientation. To test this further, we modified the standard reorientation paradigm to be more amenable to Bayesian cue combination analyses while still requiring reorientation in an allocentric (i.e., world-based, not egocentric) frame. Twelve adults and 20 children at ages 5 to 7 years old were asked to recall locations in a virtual environment after a disorientation. Results were not consistent with adaptive combination. Instead, they are consistent with the use of the most useful (nearest) single landmark in isolation. We term this adaptive selection. Experiment 2 suggests that adults also use the adaptive selection method when they are not disoriented but are still required to use a local allocentric frame. This suggests that the process of recalling a location in the allocentric frame is typically guided by the single most useful landmark rather than a Bayesian combination of landmarks. These results illustrate that there can be important limits to Bayesian theories of the cognition, particularly for complex tasks such as allocentric recall. American Psychological Association 2021-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8582329/ /pubmed/34766823 http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000950 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This article has been published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Copyright for this article is retained by the author(s). Author(s) grant(s) the American Psychological Association the exclusive right to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher. |
spellingShingle | Articles Negen, James Bird, Laura-Ashleigh Nardini, Marko An Adaptive Cue Selection Model of Allocentric Spatial Reorientation |
title | An Adaptive Cue Selection Model of Allocentric Spatial Reorientation |
title_full | An Adaptive Cue Selection Model of Allocentric Spatial Reorientation |
title_fullStr | An Adaptive Cue Selection Model of Allocentric Spatial Reorientation |
title_full_unstemmed | An Adaptive Cue Selection Model of Allocentric Spatial Reorientation |
title_short | An Adaptive Cue Selection Model of Allocentric Spatial Reorientation |
title_sort | adaptive cue selection model of allocentric spatial reorientation |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8582329/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34766823 http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000950 |
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