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ArticlePsychology and aging2025

Spatial navigation strategy in older adults: Preference or ability?

Adam J Barnas, Jeffrey T Kunath, Eliany Perez, Zachary Boogaart, Dawn Bowers, Natalie C Ebner, Steven M Weisberg

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Article in Psychology and aging, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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7 authors.

Adam J BarnasDepartment of Psychology, University of Florida.ORCID 0000-0002-6953-7530
Jeffrey T KunathDepartment of Psychology, University of Florida.ORCID 0009-0005-3728-5833
Eliany PerezDepartment of Psychology, University of Florida.ORCID 0000-0001-5443-7652
Zachary BoogaartMiller School of Medicine, University of Miami.ORCID 0000-0003-1998-0646
Dawn BowersDepartment of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida.ORCID 0000-0001-7329-2014
Natalie C EbnerDepartment of Psychology, University of Florida.ORCID 0000-0002-2705-7520
Steven M WeisbergDepartment of Psychology, University of Florida.ORCID 0000-0001-7003-6082

Funding

Critical Life Event Support for K01 NIA AwardeeK01AG070333 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI WEISBERG, STEVEN M · 2021 to 2025
$694k
Florida Department of Health; Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer's Disease Research ProgramNational Institutes of Health; National Institute on AgingNIA NIH HHS K01 AG070333
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spatial navigation strategies change in aging. Whereas younger adults use more shortcuts (place-based strategies), older adults use more familiar routes (response-based strategies). Does this bias in older adults reflect a preference for familiar routes or deficits in the ability to take shortcuts? We tested this question by providing an instructions-based intervention in which participants were told to take shortcuts rather than follow a learned route. We predicted that when instructed to do so, participants would increase shortcut taking overall, but older adults to a lesser extent than younger adults, supporting the notion that preference, rather than an inability to use place-based strategies, underlies the predilection for response-based strategies in older age. Younger (

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AgingSpatial NavigationAdultAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedYoung Adult

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