Spatial reorientation with non-visual cues: Failure to spontaneously use auditory information

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology : QJEP
Daniele NardiBrittany V Griffith

Abstract

Among the environmental stimuli that can guide navigation in space, most attention has been dedicated to visual information. The process of determining where you are and which direction you are facing (called reorientation) has been extensively examined by providing the navigator with two sources of information-typically the shape of the environment and its features-with an interest in the extent to which they are used. Similar questions with non-visual cues are lacking. Here, blindfolded sighted participants had to learn the location of a target in a real-world, circular search space. In Experiment 1, two ecologically relevant non-visual cues were provided: the slope of the floor and an array of two identical auditory landmarks. Slope successfully guided behaviour, suggesting that proprioceptive/kinesthetic access is sufficient to navigate on a slanted environment. However, despite the fact that participants could localise the auditory sources, this information was not encoded. In Experiment 2, the auditory cue was made more useful for the task because it had greater predictive value and there were no competing spatial cues. Nonetheless, again, the auditory landmark was not encoded. Finally, in Experiment 3, after being prompt...Continue Reading

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