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Navigating without vision: spontaneous use of terrain slant in outdoor place learning.
- Source :
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Spatial Cognition & Computation . 2021, Vol. 21 Issue 3, p235-255. 21p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- The topography of the land provides a suite of spatial information for navigation. In an outdoor field experiment, we examined terrain slant as a nonvisual cue. Without being told which cue to use, blindfolded, sighted participants completed a place-learning task in a flat and a slanted site. Errors were significantly smaller in the slanted site. Furthermore, performance in the slanted – but not flat – site was significantly better than expected if guessing the target's direction. This suggests that proprioceptive/kinesthetic and vestibular cues from the slant were spontaneously used for place-learning, albeit with lower accuracy compared to visual cues. Terrain slope might be an environmental cue that is salient and realistically used by blind and sighted persons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *VISION
*TOPOGRAPHY
*MOBILITY of blind people
*MUSCULAR sense
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13875868
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Spatial Cognition & Computation
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 151304323
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13875868.2021.1916504