TY - JOUR
T1 - Monitoring object orientation
T2 - Effects of layout complexity, viewpoint changes, and object function
AU - Mello, Catherine
AU - Waller, David
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by a Postgraduate Scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to the first author. We thank Laura Gormas, Benjamin Agnew, and Theodore Bowen for their assistance in data collection, as well as Eric Hodgson for his help with virtual environment-related aspects of Experiment 2.
PY - 2010/10
Y1 - 2010/10
N2 - Studies of spatial representations have typically limited their analysis to memory for object location. Three experiments examined whether another spatial feature, object orientation, could be monitored and represented in a similar fashion. In Experiment 1, an adaptation of the change detection paradigm of Simons and Wang (1998), we found that, whereas unitary location or identity changes were readily noticed, generalized orientation changes were not. Experiment 2 showed that orientation monitoring is strongly affected by layout complexity, viewpoint changes, and the extent of array modifications. Finally, Experiment 3 suggested that an object's behavioral relevance may selectively enhance its orientation processing.
AB - Studies of spatial representations have typically limited their analysis to memory for object location. Three experiments examined whether another spatial feature, object orientation, could be monitored and represented in a similar fashion. In Experiment 1, an adaptation of the change detection paradigm of Simons and Wang (1998), we found that, whereas unitary location or identity changes were readily noticed, generalized orientation changes were not. Experiment 2 showed that orientation monitoring is strongly affected by layout complexity, viewpoint changes, and the extent of array modifications. Finally, Experiment 3 suggested that an object's behavioral relevance may selectively enhance its orientation processing.
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U2 - 10.1080/13875868.2010.487963
DO - 10.1080/13875868.2010.487963
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79960241269
SN - 1387-5868
VL - 10
SP - 313
EP - 340
JO - Spatial Cognition and Computation
JF - Spatial Cognition and Computation
IS - 4
ER -