Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London, UK; Department of Philosophy, University of York, York, UK.
Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London, UK.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2024 Jan;28(1):56-71. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.09.004. Epub 2023 Oct 3.
Research on human navigation by psychologists and neuroscientists has come mainly from a limited range of environments and participants inhabiting western countries. By contrast, numerous anthropological accounts illustrate the diverse ways in which cultures adapt to their surrounding environment to navigate. Here, we provide an overview of these studies and relate them to cognitive science research. The diversity of cues in traditional navigation is much higher and multimodal compared with navigation experiments in the laboratory. It typically involves an integrated system of methods, drawing on a detailed understanding of the environmental cues, specific tools, and forms part of a broader cultural system. We highlight recent methodological developments for measuring navigation skill and modelling behaviour that will aid future research into how culture and environment shape human navigation.
心理学家和神经科学家对人类导航的研究主要来自于有限的环境范围和居住在西方国家的参与者。相比之下，许多人类学的描述说明了文化适应其周围环境进行导航的多种方式。在这里，我们提供了这些研究的概述，并将其与认知科学研究联系起来。与实验室中的传统导航实验相比，传统导航中的线索多样性要高得多，并且涉及多种模式。它通常涉及一个综合的方法系统，利用对环境线索、特定工具的详细了解，并且是更广泛的文化系统的一部分。我们强调了用于测量导航技能和建模行为的最新方法发展，这将有助于未来研究文化和环境如何塑造人类导航。
