Avraamides Marios N, Sarrou Mikaella, Kelly Jonathan W
Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 20537, 1678, Nicosia, Cyprus,
Mem Cognit. 2014 Apr;42(3):496-507. doi: 10.3758/s13421-013-0373-y.
In three experiments, we investigated whether the information available to visual perception prior to encoding the locations of objects in a path through proprioception would influence the reference direction from which the spatial memory was formed. Participants walked a path whose orientation was misaligned to the walls of the enclosing room and to the square sheet that covered the path prior to learning (Exp. 1) and, in addition, to the intrinsic structure of a layout studied visually prior to walking the path and to the orientation of stripes drawn on the floor (Exps. 2 and 3). Despite the availability of prior visual information, participants constructed spatial memories that were aligned with the canonical axes of the path, as opposed to the reference directions primed by visual experience. The results are discussed in the context of previous studies documenting transfer of reference frames within and across perceptual modalities.
在三项实验中，我们研究了在通过本体感觉对路径中物体位置进行编码之前，视觉感知所获取的信息是否会影响空间记忆形成时所依据的参考方向。参与者在学习之前走过一条路径，该路径的方向与封闭房间的墙壁、覆盖路径的方形薄板（实验1）不一致，此外，还与在走过该路径之前视觉研究的布局的内在结构以及地板上绘制的条纹方向（实验2和3）不一致。尽管存在先前的视觉信息，但参与者构建的空间记忆与路径的规范轴对齐，而不是与视觉经验引发的参考方向对齐。我们将在先前记录参考框架在感知模态内和跨感知模态转移的研究背景下讨论这些结果。
