The role of memory and perspective shifts in systematic biases during object location estimation

In the current study, we investigated whether the introduction of perspective shifts in a spatial memory task results in systematic biases in object location estimations. To do so, we asked participants to first encode the position of an object in a virtual room and then to report its position from...

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Published in:Attention, perception & psychophysics perception & psychophysics, 2022-05, Vol.84 (4), p.1208-1219
Main Authors: Segen, Vladislava, Colombo, Giorgio, Avraamides, Marios, Slattery, Timothy, Wiener, Jan M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Bias
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive Psychology
Environment
Expectation
Humans
Laboratory Experiments
Memory
Motor Vehicles
Perceptual Disorders
Perspective Taking
Psychology
Space Perception
Spatial Memory
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Summary:In the current study, we investigated whether the introduction of perspective shifts in a spatial memory task results in systematic biases in object location estimations. To do so, we asked participants to first encode the position of an object in a virtual room and then to report its position from memory or perception following a perspective shift. Overall, our results showed that participants made systematic errors in estimating object positions in the same direction as the perspective shift. Notably, this bias was present in both memory and perception conditions. We propose that the observed systematic bias was driven by difficulties in understanding the perspective shifts that led participants to use an egocentric representation of object positions as an anchor when estimating the object location following a perspective shift.
ISSN:1943-3921
1943-393X
1943-393X
DOI:10.3758/s13414-022-02445-y