This place looks familiar – how navigators distinguish places with ambiguous landmark objects when learning novel routes

We present two experiments investigating how navigators deal with ambiguous landmark information when learning unfamiliar routes. In the experiments we presented landmark objects repeatedly along a route, which allowed us to manipulate how informative single landmarks were (1) about the navigators’...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Psychology
Main Authors:	Marianne eStrickrodt, Mary eO'Malley, Jan M. Wiener
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-12-01
Subjects:	spatial cognition route learning wayfinding navigation Landmarks
Online Access:	http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01936/full