Drawing maps and remembering landmarks after driving in a virtual small town environment

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Sandamas, G. and Foreman, N. 2007. Drawing maps and remembering landmarks after driving in a virtual small town environment. Journal of Maps. 2007, pp. 35-45. https://doi.org/10.4113/jom.2007.73
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TitleDrawing maps and remembering landmarks after driving in a virtual small town environment
AuthorsSandamas, G. and Foreman, N.
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Participants were designated active drivers or passive passengers according to whether or not they had control over the displacements of a virtual vehicle, while taking 5, 10 or 15 tours of a virtual small town environment. When tested later, passive passengers were able to remember more landmarks than the active drivers. However, with successive tours, participants in both groups were able to draw better survey maps of the environment, though this effect was greater in passive passengers. Landmark memory and map drawing ability were positively correlated. The results support models of spatial cognition that emphasise survey representations as the end product of spatial learning in new environments, but also emphasise that the acquisition of landmark information is continuous throughout this process.

Research GroupLanguage, Learning and Cognition group
PublisherSchool of Earth Sciences and Geography, Kingston University
JournalJournal of Maps
ISSN1744-5647
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Print2007
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Deposited06 Nov 2009
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