SCALab UMR CNRS 9193, Université de Lille, 59653, Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France.
Helmholtz Institute, Experimental Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Psychol Res. 2019 Jul;83(5):1083-1095. doi: 10.1007/s00426-018-1015-6. Epub 2018 Apr 16.
The aim of this study was to assess how people memorize spatial information of emotionally laden landmarks along a route and if the emotional value of the landmarks affects the way metric and configurational properties of the route itself are represented. Three groups of participants were asked to watch a movie of a virtual walk along a route. The route could contain positive, negative, or neutral landmarks. Afterwards, participants were asked to: (a) recognize the landmarks; (b) imagine to walk distances between landmarks; (c) indicate the position of the landmarks along the route; (d) judge the length of the route; (e) draw the route. Results showed that participants who watched the route with positive landmarks were more accurate in locating the landmarks along the route and drawing the route. On the other hand, participants in the negative condition judged the route as longer than participants in the other two conditions and were less accurate in mentally reproducing distances between landmarks. The data will be interpreted in the light of the "feelings-as-information theory" by Schwarz (2010) and the most recent evidence about the effect of emotions on spatial memory. In brief, the evidence collected in this study supports the idea that spatial cognition emerges from the interaction between an organism and contextual characteristics.
本研究旨在评估人们如何记忆路线上带有情感的地标空间信息，以及地标情感价值是否会影响路线自身度量和结构属性的呈现方式。三组参与者被要求观看一段虚拟行走路线的电影。路线可以包含积极的、消极的或中性的地标。之后，参与者被要求：（a）识别地标；（b）想象地标之间的距离；（c）沿着路线指示地标位置；（d）判断路线长度；（e）绘制路线。结果表明，观看带有积极地标路线的参与者在沿着路线定位地标和绘制路线方面更为准确。另一方面，处于消极条件下的参与者判断路线比其他两种条件下的参与者更长，并且在心理上再现地标之间的距离时准确性较低。这些数据将根据 Schwarz（2010）的“情感即信息理论”和最新关于情绪对空间记忆影响的证据进行解释。简而言之，本研究收集的证据支持空间认知源自生物体与环境特征相互作用的观点。
