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2019-10-13
Lei Zhang, Weimin Mou, Xuehui Lei, Yu Du
This study investigated when the Bayesian cue combination of piloting and path integration occurs in human homing behaviors. The Bayesian cue combination was hypothesized to occur in estimating the home location or self-localization. In Experiment 1, the participants learned the locations of five...
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Fall 2020
Spatial navigation updates people’s self-location (heading and position) and meanwhile develops spatial memory. Environments in real life are often multiscale environments, which contain a number of individual spaces separated by boundaries. People primarily rely on visual cues (piloting) to...
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2019-03-20
Xuehui Lei, Weimin Mou, Lei Zhang
This study investigated the extent to which people can develop a global representation of local environments through across-boundary navigation. Participants learned objects’ locations in two misaligned rectangular rooms in an immersive virtual environment. After learning, they adopted a local...
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Disrupted Orientation After Path Integration by Absence of Anticipated Prevalent Spatial Views
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Two previous studies indicated that removing expected landmarks disrupts homing, a new phenomenon concerning the interplay between path integration and landmark-based navigation. This study systematically investigated when this disruption occurs, which spatial representations are disrupted, and...
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Path integration, rather than being suppressed, is used to update spatial views in familiar environments with constantly available landmarks
Download2023-01-01
This project tested three hypotheses conceptualizing the interaction between path integration based on self-motion and piloting based on landmarks in a familiar environment with persistent landmarks. The first hypothesis posits that path integration functions automatically, as in environments...
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Path integration, rather than being suppressed, used to update spatial views in familiar environments with landmarks always available
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This project, following the elegant paradigm developed by Zhao and Warren (2015b), investigated how self-motion cues and landmarks are used during navigation in a familiar environment with constantly available landmarks. Participants learned the location of a specific object. After completing one...
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Spring 2024
An effective navigation process requires the ability to determine the navigators’ current position and heading in the environment (referred to as self-localization) and localize the points of interest, such as home. Humans and non-human animals typically use self-motion cues (i.e., path...