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ERIC Number: EJ915607
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Mar
Pages: 7
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-0277
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Cross-Sensory Transfer of Reference Frames in Spatial Memory
Kelly, Jonathan W.; Avraamides, Marios N.
Cognition, v118 n3 p444-450 Mar 2011
Two experiments investigated whether visual cues influence spatial reference frame selection for locations learned through touch. Participants experienced visual cues emphasizing specific environmental axes and later learned objects through touch. Visual cues were manipulated and haptic learning conditions were held constant. Imagined perspective taking when recalling touched objects was best from perspectives aligned with visually-defined axes, providing evidence for cross-sensory reference frame transfer. These findings advance spatial memory theory by demonstrating that multimodal spatial information can be integrated within a common spatial representation. (Contains 4 figures.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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