Zeng Lingju, Leplow Bernd, Höll Doris, Mehdorn Maximilian
Department of Psychology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel.
Percept Mot Skills. 2003 Dec;97(3 Pt 1):917-35. doi: 10.2466/pms.2003.97.3.917.
To obtain and analyze the strategies of human spatial behavior, the Kiel Locomotor Maze, a maze-like analogue, was used. The Kiel Locomotor Maze automatically records different types of spatial memory errors, distances and rotation angles, decision time, and reaction times for each move. 18 patients with cerebral tumors within the frontal, temporal, or parietal lobes and 16 patients with Parkinson's disease were investigated with respect to "sense of direction." These parameters provide information beyond error scores. It was expected that patients with focal cortical lesions would be characterised by loss of directional sense whereas basal ganglia-related brain disease is characterised by preserved directional sense but poor memory for cue-defined target locations. Based on the neuropsychological theory of head-direction sense, especially the 1991 model of McNaughton, the functionality of storage and update of the head-direction sense may be reflected with the help of these parameters. "Direction sense" parameters provide information about success or failure of the acquisition of a spatial task much earlier than error scores.
为了获取和分析人类空间行为策略，使用了基尔运动迷宫，这是一种类似迷宫的模拟装置。基尔运动迷宫会自动记录不同类型的空间记忆错误、距离和旋转角度、每次移动的决策时间和反应时间。对18名额叶、颞叶或顶叶患有脑肿瘤的患者以及16名帕金森病患者进行了“方向感”调查。这些参数提供的信息超出了错误分数。预计局灶性皮质病变患者的特征是方向感丧失，而基底神经节相关脑病的特征是方向感保留，但对线索定义的目标位置记忆不佳。基于头部方向感的神经心理学理论，特别是1991年麦克诺顿的模型，借助这些参数可以反映头部方向感的存储和更新功能。“方向感”参数比错误分数更早地提供有关空间任务获取成功或失败的信息。
