Quesnot Teriitutea, Guelton Bernard
Univ Brest, CNRS, LETG - UMR 6554, Plouzané, France.
Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France.
Memory. 2023 Nov;31(10):1352-1370. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2023.2267190. Epub 2023 Nov 21.
Research on spatial mental representations focuses on individual mental maps and spatial knowledge. This exploratory study investigates instead collective interactions, collaborative memory, and the sharing of spatial knowledge. Based on the principle of collaborative inhibition (i.e., people recall information less effectively in groups), we posed the following research question: ? We conducted in situ explorations in Plaine St-Denis (France) with real-time tracking, followed by individual and group drawing sessions. This experiment involved 118 participants divided into three groups: (1) solo explorations without devices; (2) solo explorations with a mobile mapping application; (3) collective explorations using the same application enhanced with interaction features (viewing collective routes and photos of visited places). The comparison of the total number of entities found on individual mental maps with those included in collective sketch maps reveals that collaborative inhibition applies to spatial memory. Additional findings indicate that the use of a map, combined with collective interactions, mitigates collaborative inhibition and increases the accuracy of the sketch maps. However, the effect of such interactions on group dynamics remains unclear as of now.
对空间心理表征的研究聚焦于个体心理地图和空间知识。而这项探索性研究转而调查集体互动、协作记忆以及空间知识的共享。基于协作抑制原则（即人们在群体中回忆信息的效率较低），我们提出了以下研究问题： 我们在法国圣但尼平原进行了实地探索，采用实时跟踪，随后进行了个人和小组绘图环节。该实验涉及118名参与者，分为三组：（1）无设备的单人探索；（2）使用移动地图应用程序的单人探索；（3）使用具有交互功能（查看集体路线和去过地方的照片）的同一应用程序进行的集体探索。将个体心理地图上发现的实体总数与集体草图地图中包含的实体进行比较，结果表明协作抑制适用于空间记忆。其他研究结果表明，地图的使用与集体互动相结合，可减轻协作抑制并提高草图地图的准确性。然而，截至目前，这种互动对群体动态的影响仍不明确。
