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Meilinger T, Schulte-Pelkum J, Frankenstein J, et al. How to Best Name a Place? Facilitation and Inhibition of Route Learning Due to Descriptive and Arbitrary Location Labels. Front Psychol. 2016;7:76doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00076.
Meilinger, T., Schulte-Pelkum, J., Frankenstein, J., Hardiess, G., Laharnar, N., Mallot, H. A., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2016). How to Best Name a Place? Facilitation and Inhibition of Route Learning Due to Descriptive and Arbitrary Location Labels. Frontiers in psychology, 776. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00076
Meilinger, Tobias, et al. "How to Best Name a Place? Facilitation and Inhibition of Route Learning Due to Descriptive and Arbitrary Location Labels." Frontiers in psychology vol. 7 (2016): 76. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00076
Meilinger T, Schulte-Pelkum J, Frankenstein J, Hardiess G, Laharnar N, Mallot HA, Bülthoff HH. How to Best Name a Place? Facilitation and Inhibition of Route Learning Due to Descriptive and Arbitrary Location Labels. Front Psychol. 2016 Feb 01;7:76. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00076. eCollection 2016. PMID: 26869975; PMCID: PMC4734103.
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Front Psychol. 2016 Feb 01;7:76. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00076. eCollection 2016.

How to Best Name a Place? Facilitation and Inhibition of Route Learning Due to Descriptive and Arbitrary Location Labels.

Frontiers in psychology

Tobias Meilinger, Jörg Schulte-Pelkum, Julia Frankenstein, Gregor Hardiess, Naima Laharnar, Hanspeter A Mallot, Heinrich H Bülthoff

Affiliations

  1. Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Tübingen, Germany.
  2. Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological CyberneticsTübingen, Germany; Psychology of Education, University of MannheimMannheim, Germany.
  3. Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen Tübingen, Germany.
  4. Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological CyberneticsTübingen, Germany; Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea UniversitySeoul, South Korea.

PMID: 26869975 PMCID: PMC4734103 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00076

Abstract

Establishing verbal memory traces for non-verbal stimuli was reported to facilitate or inhibit memory for the non-verbal stimuli. We show that these effects are also observed in a domain not indicated before-wayfinding. Fifty-three participants followed a guided route in a virtual environment. They were asked to remember half of the intersections by relying on the visual impression only. At the other 50% of the intersections, participants additionally heard a place name, which they were asked to memorize. For testing, participants were teleported to the intersections and were asked to indicate the subsequent direction of the learned route. In Experiment 1, intersections' names were arbitrary (i.e., not related to the visual impression). Here, participants performed more accurately at unnamed intersections. In Experiment 2, intersections' names were descriptive and participants' route memory was more accurate at named intersections. Results have implications for naming places in a city and for wayfinding aids.

Keywords: dual coding; multimedia learning; orientation dependency; primacy recency; spatial cognition; verbal overshadowing; virtual reality; wayfinding

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