The role of memory and perspective shifts in systematic biases during object location estimation
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2022-05
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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.
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84 (4)
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1208 - 1219
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Springer
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Spatial memory; Spatial perspective taking; Perception of space; Spatial cognition; Object location memory
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08058 - Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) / Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC)
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