How to best name a place? Facilitation and inhibition of route learning due to descriptive and arbitrary location labels

How to best name a place? Facilitation and inhibition of route learning due to descriptive and arbitrary location labels

Establishing verbal memory traces for non-verbal stimuli was reported to facilitate or inhibit memory for the non-verbal stimuli. We show that these effects are also observed in a domain not indicated before – wayfinding. Fifty-three participants followed a guided route in a virtual environment. The...

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Main Authors: Tobias eMeilinger, Jörg eSchulte-Pelkum, Julias eFrankenstein, Gregor eHardiess, Naima eLaharnar, Hanspeter A. Mallot, Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
spatial cognition
wayfinding
virtual reality
multimedia learning
recency
Verbal Overshadowing
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00076/full

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