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Learning landmarks and routes in multi-floored buildings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2013

Alain Berthoz  and
Guillaume Thibault
Alain Berthoz
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de l'Action, Collège de France, 75231 Paris, France. alain.berthoz@colllege-de-france.frhttp://www.lppa.college-de-france.fr/EN/
Guillaume Thibault
Affiliation:
Electricité de France Recherche & Développement, 92141 Clamart cedex, France. guillaume.thibault@edf.frhttp://research.edf.com/research-and-innovation-44204.html
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Abstract

Existing studies have proposed that humans preferentially memorize buildings as a collection of floors. Yet this might stem from the fact that environments were also explored by floors. We have studied this potential bias with a learning and recognition experiment. We have detected a positive influence of the learning route – by floors, and also crucially by columns – on spatial memory performances.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 5 , October 2013 , pp. 545
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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