TY - JOUR
T1 - Changing perspective within and across environments
AU - Brockmole, James R.
AU - Wang, Ranxiao Frances
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to J.R. Brockmole and a University of Illinois Institutional Research Board Grant to R.F. Wang. We are deeply indebted to all of our subjects, especially the faculty in the Psychology Department at the University of Illinois who so willingly reversed their typical role in research to participate in this study. We also thank David Kaneshiro for his help with data collection.
PY - 2003/3
Y1 - 2003/3
N2 - Perspective change within a single environment is a slow and effortful process. However, little research has addressed perspective change across multiple environments. Using a task-set switching paradigm, subjects judged spatial relationships between target locations from differing perspectives. Response times were longer when successive trials probed different perspectives. However, this cost was greater when perspective was changed within a single environment compared to when it was changed across two environments. This result indicates that the processing of perspective change, and perhaps general spatial reasoning, differs in these two cases. Implications for theories of perspective change and environmental knowledge are discussed.
AB - Perspective change within a single environment is a slow and effortful process. However, little research has addressed perspective change across multiple environments. Using a task-set switching paradigm, subjects judged spatial relationships between target locations from differing perspectives. Response times were longer when successive trials probed different perspectives. However, this cost was greater when perspective was changed within a single environment compared to when it was changed across two environments. This result indicates that the processing of perspective change, and perhaps general spatial reasoning, differs in these two cases. Implications for theories of perspective change and environmental knowledge are discussed.
KW - Environmental representations
KW - Perspective change
KW - Spatial reasoning
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U2 - 10.1016/s0010-0277(02)00231-7
DO - 10.1016/s0010-0277(02)00231-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 12590042
AN - SCOPUS:0037362488
SN - 0010-0277
VL - 87
SP - B59-B67
JO - Cognition
JF - Cognition
IS - 2
ER -