ArticleSpatial cognition and computation2019
Which way is the bookstore? A closer look at the judgments of relative directions task.
Article in Spatial cognition and computation, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Mental Representations of Impossible Non-Euclidean Environments.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Do spatial navigation and episodic memory rely on the same systems? Evidence from a naturalistic experience with children and adults.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2025Article
- Using spontaneous eye blink-related brain activity to investigate cognitive load during mobile map-assisted navigation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Spatial memory distortions for the shapes of walked paths occur in violation of physically experienced geometry.PloS one · 2023Article
- Landmarks: A solution for spatial navigation and memory experiments in virtual reality.Behavior research methods · 2021Article
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- Current Promises and Limitations of Combined Virtual Reality and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research in Humans: A Commentary on Huffman and Ekstrom (2019).Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2021Article
- Grid coding, spatial representation, and navigation: Should we assume an isomorphism?Hippocampus · 2020Review
- A Modality-Independent Network Underlies the Retrieval of Large-Scale Spatial Environments in the Human Brain.Neuron · 2019Article
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Abstract
We present a detailed analysis of a widely used assay in human spatial cognition, the judgments of relative direction (JRD) task. We conducted three experiments involving virtual navigation interspersed with the JRD task, and included confidence judgments and map drawing as additional metrics. We also present a technique for assessing the similarity of the cognitive representations underlying performance on the JRD and map drawing tasks. Our results support the construct validity of the JRD task and its connection to allocentric representation. Additionally, we found that chance performance on the JRD task depends on the distribution of the angles of participants' responses, rather than being constant and 90 degrees. Accordingly, we present a method for better determining chance performance.
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