2001/10/01 by Francesca Pazzaglia, Rossana De Béni · 3 citations
Computer Science · Engineering · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Augmented Reality Applications #Cartography #Cognition #Cognitive psychology #Developmental psychology #Geography #Geography Education and Pedagogy #Landmark #Likert scale #Mental rotation #Psychology #Spatial Cognition and Navigation #Spatial ability #Task (project management) #Test (biology)
paper · doi:10.1080/09541440125778
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This study investigated differences between individuals with survey and landmark-centred spatial representations in different visuo-spatial tasks and in two way-finding tasks. The Mental Rotation Test (MRT; Vanderberg & Kuse, 1978), and the Minnesota Paper Form Board Test (MPFB; Likert & Quasha, 1941) were administered to two groups of high-survey and landmark-centred undergraduate students. The groups also performed two way-finding tasks where they were required to study the route they were going to take, in one case with a map and in the other with a verbal description. Differences between the two groups emerged; high-survey individuals performed the MRT better than the landmark-centred ones. In the way-finding task an interaction, instruction by group, was found, supporting the idea that the two groups are influenced differently by the format (map or verbal description) of instructions. The landmark-centred group made fewer errors than the high-survey group with the verbal descriptions.