title: Egocentric representation acquired from offline map learning.
abstract: It is widely accepted that people establish allocentric spatial representation after learning a map. However, it is unknown whether people can directly acquire egocentric representation after map learning. In two experiments, the participants learned a distal environment through a map and then performed the egocentric pointing tasks in that environment under three conditions: with the heading aligned with the learning perspective (baseline), after 240° rotation from the baseline (updating), and after disorientation (disorientation). Disorientation disrupted the internal consistency of pointing among objects when the participants learned the sequentially displayed map, on which only one object name was displayed at a time while the location of "self" remained on the screen all the time. However, disorientation did not affect the internal consistency of pointing among objects when the participants learned the simultaneously displayed map. These results suggest that the egocentric representation can be acquired from a sequentially presented map.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. xiaocl@nju.edu.cn
authors.forename: Chengli
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D003221:Confusion; D005260:Female; D005843:Geography; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*
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