title: Humans have precise knowledge of familiar geographical slants.
abstract: Whereas maps primarily represent the 2-dimensional layout of the environment, people are also aware of the 3-dimensional layout of their environment. An experiment conducted on a small college campus tested whether the remembered slants of familiar paths were precisely represented. Three measures of slant (verbal, manual, and pictorial) were collected in 2 different between-subject conditions (perception and memory) for 5 familiar paths on the campus of Swarthmore College, ranging in slant from 0.5° to 8.6°. Estimates from memory and from perception did not differ for any of the measures. Moreover, estimates from all measures, though different in mean value, were correlated within participant, suggesting a common underlying representation was consulted in all cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College.
authors.forename: Anthony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stigliani
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College.
authors.forename: Zhi
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College.
authors.forename: Frank H
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Durgin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D062305:Geographic Mapping; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
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