Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci. 2021 May;12(3):e1549. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1549. Epub 2020 Nov 13.
Representations of space in mind are crucial for navigation, facilitating processes such as remembering landmark locations, understanding spatial relationships between objects, and integrating routes. A significant problem, however, is the lack of consensus on how these representations are encoded and stored in memory. Specifically, the nature of egocentric and allocentric frames of reference in human memory is widely debated. Yet, in recent investigations of the spatial domain across the lifespan, these distinctions in mnemonic spatial frames of reference have identified age-related impairments. In this review, we survey the ways in which different terms related to spatial representations in memory have been operationalized in past aging research and suggest a taxonomy to provide a common language for future investigations and theoretical discussion. This article is categorized under: Psychology > Memory Neuroscience > Cognition Psychology > Development and Aging.
在大脑中对空间的表示对于导航至关重要，有助于记住地标位置、理解物体之间的空间关系以及整合路线等过程。然而，一个重要的问题是，对于这些表示如何在记忆中进行编码和存储，尚未达成共识。具体来说，人类记忆中自我中心和他心参照系的性质存在广泛争议。然而，在最近对整个生命周期的空间领域的研究中，这些记忆中空间参照框架的区别已经确定了与年龄相关的障碍。在这篇综述中，我们调查了过去衰老研究中与记忆中空间表示相关的不同术语的操作方式，并提出了一个分类法，为未来的研究和理论讨论提供了一个共同的语言。本文属于以下分类：心理学 > 记忆神经科学 > 认知心理学 > 发展与衰老。
