Journal article

Publication year: 2008

Pages: 755-770

Journal: Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal

Volume number: 32

Issue number: 4

ISSN: 0364-0213

eISSN: 1551-6709

Open access status: Green

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/03640210802067004

Publisher: Wiley

Abstract: 
This study examines the working memory systems involved in human wayfinding. In the learning phase, 24 participants learned two routes in a novel photorealistic virtual environment displayed on a 220 screen while they were disrupted by a visual, a spatial, a verbal, or-in a control group-no secondary task. In the following wayfinding phase, the participants had to find and to "virtually walk" the two routes again. During this wayfinding phase, a number of dependent measures were recorded. This research shows that encoding wayfinding knowledge interfered with the verbal and with the spatial secondary task. These interferences were even stronger than the interference of wayfinding knowledge with the visual secondary task. These findings are consistent with a dual-coding approach of wayfinding knowledge.

Harvard Citation style: Meilinger, T., Knauff, M. and Buelthoff, H. (2008) Working memory in wayfinding -: A dual task experiment in a virtual city, Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 32(4), pp. 755-770. https://doi.org/10.1080/03640210802067004

APA Citation style: Meilinger, T., Knauff, M., & Buelthoff, H. (2008). Working memory in wayfinding -: A dual task experiment in a virtual city. Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal. 32(4), 755-770. https://doi.org/10.1080/03640210802067004