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Paths With More Turns Are Perceived As Longer:Misperceptions With Map-Based And Abstracted Path Stimuli

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Summary .— When navigating, people tend to overestimate distances when routes contain more turns, termed the route-angularity eff ect . Three experiments examined the source and generality of this eff ect. The fi rst two experiments examined whether route-angularity eff ects occur while viewing maps and might be related to sex diff erences or sense of direction. The third experiment tested whether the route-angularity eff ect would occur with stimuli devoid of spatial context, reducing infl uences of environmental experience and visual complexity. In the three
experiments, participants ( N = 1,552; M = 32.2 yr.; 992 men, 560 women) viewed paths plotted on maps (Exps. 1 and 2) or against a blank background (Exp. 3). The depicted paths were always the same overall length, but varied in the number of e asked to estimate the time to traverse each path (Exp. 1) or the length of each path (Exps.2 and 3). The Santa Barbara Sense of Direction questionnaire was administered to assess whether overall spatial sense of direction would be negatively related to the magnitude of the route-angularity eff ect. Repeated-measures analyses of variance
(ANOVAs) indicated that paths with more turns elicited estimates of greater distance and travel times, whether they were depicted on maps or blank backgrounds. Linear regressions also indicated that these eff ects were signifi cantly larger in those with a relatively low sense of direction. The results support the route-angularity eff ect and extend it to paths plotted on map-based stimuli. Furthermore, because the route-angularity eff ect was shown with paths plotted against blank backgrounds,route-angularity eff ects are not specifi c to understanding environ ents
and may arise at the level of visual perception.

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Judul Seri

Learning & Memory

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: Wiley Periodicals., 2015

Deskripsi Fisik

Learning & Memory 2015, 120, 2, 438-461

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English

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00315125

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