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Spatial working memory for clustered and linear configurations of sites in a virtual reality foraging task

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Abstract

Two experiments using an immersive virtual reality foraging environment determined the spatial strategies spontaneously deployed by people in a foraging task and the effects on immediate serial recall of trajectories though the foraging space, which could conform or violate specific organisational constraints. People benefitted from the use of organised search patterns when attempting to monitor their travel though either a clustered “patchy” space or a matrix of locations. The results are discussed within a comparative framework.

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge financial support from Capital Investment Fund grant “Visual, spatial and motor cognition in virtual reality, computer generated and other realistic environments” and Nuffield Foundation URB/39517; and technical support from Kevin McCracken.

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This supplement was not sponsored by outside commercial interests. It was funded entirely by ECONA, Via dei Marsi, 78, 00185 Roma, Italy.

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De Lillo, C., James, F.C. Spatial working memory for clustered and linear configurations of sites in a virtual reality foraging task. Cogn Process 13, 243–246 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-012-0448-x

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Keywords

  • Working memory
  • Spatial strategies
  • Primates
  • Virtual reality