Gravitational and Retinal Reference Frames Shape Spatial Memory
Tucciarelli, Raffaele and Ferre, Elisa Raffaella and Amoruso, Elena and Azanon Gracia, Elena and Longo, Matthew (2023) Gravitational and Retinal Reference Frames Shape Spatial Memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General , ISSN 0096-3445.
|
Text
51112.pdf - Author's Accepted Manuscript Download (901kB) | Preview |
Abstract
When reproducing the remembered location of dots within a circle, judgments are biased towards the centre of imaginary quadrants formed by imaginary vertical and horizontal axes. This effect may result from the heightened precision in the visual system for these orientations in a retinotopic reference frame, or alternately on the internal representation of gravity. We dissociated references frames defined by the retina and by gravity by having participants locate dots from memory in a circle when their head was upright (aligned with gravity) versus tilted 30° to the left (misaligned with gravity). We mapped the structure of spatial prototypes in a data-driven way using a novel ‘imaging’ procedure. We calculated the rotation of the prototype maps which maximized the similarity between postures, letting us quantify the contribution of each reference frame. Spatial categories are determined by a combination of reference frames, with clear contributions from both gravitational and retinal factors.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Matthew Longo |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Apr 2023 11:38 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Sep 2023 18:10 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/51112 |
Statistics
Additional statistics are available via IRStats2.
Archive Staff Only (login required)
 |
Edit/View Item |