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Reference Frames Influence Spatial Memory Development within and Across Sensory Modalities

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Spatial Cognition VII (Spatial Cognition 2010)

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Research on spatial memory indicates that locations are remembered relative to reference frames, which define a spatial reference system. Reference frames are thought to be selected on the basis of environment-based and experience-based cues present during learning. Results from new experiments indicate that reference frames provide scaffolding during the development of spatial memories: the reference frame used to organize locations studied from one perspective was also used to organize new locations studied from another perspective. Further results indicate that the role of reference frames during spatial memory development can cross sensory modalities. Reference frames that organized memories of a visually-experienced environment also organized memories of haptically-experienced locations studied within the same environment. These findings indicate a role for reference frames during spatial memory development, and demonstrate that reference frames influence cross-modal spatial learning.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, W112 Lagomarcino Hall, Ames, IA, 50010

    Jonathan W. Kelly

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 20537, 1678, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Marios N. Avraamides

  3. Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, 111 21st Ave. South, Nashville, TN, 37203

    Timothy P. McNamara

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  1. Center for Cognitive Science, Institute of Computer Science and Social Research, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Friedrichstraße 50, 79098, Freiburg, Germany

    Christoph Hölscher

  2. Department of Psychology, Temple University, Weiss Hall 1701 North 13th Street, 19122-6085, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Thomas F. Shipley  & Nora S. Newcombe  & 

  3. Department of Psychology, ’Sapienza’ University of Rome, Via dei Marsi 78, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Marta Olivetti Belardinelli

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Kelly, J.W., Avraamides, M.N., McNamara, T.P. (2010). Reference Frames Influence Spatial Memory Development within and Across Sensory Modalities. In: Hölscher, C., Shipley, T.F., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., Bateman, J.A., Newcombe, N.S. (eds) Spatial Cognition VII. Spatial Cognition 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6222. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14749-4_20

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