Spontaneous Reorientation Is Guided by Perceived Surface Distance, Not by Image Matching or Comparison

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Spontaneous Reorientation Is Guided by Perceived Surface Distance, Not by Image Matching or Comparison

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dc.contributor.author Spelke, Elizabeth S.
dc.contributor.author Lee, Sang Ah
dc.contributor.author Winkler-Rhoades, Nathan
dc.date.accessioned 2012-11-28T14:18:36Z
dc.date.issued 2012-11-28
dc.identifier.citation Lee, Sang Ah, Nathan Winkler-Rhoades, and Elizabeth S. Spelke. 2012. Spontaneous reorientation is guided by perceived surface distance, not by image matching or comparison. PLoS ONE 7(12): e51373. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1932-6203 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:9961224
dc.description.abstract Humans and animals recover their sense of position and orientation using properties of the surface layout, but the processes underlying this ability are disputed. Although behavioral and neurophysiological experiments on animals long have suggested that reorientation depends on representations of surface distance, recent experiments on young children join experimental studies and computational models of animal navigation to suggest that reorientation depends either on processing of any continuous perceptual variables or on matching of 2D, depthless images of the landscape. We tested the surface distance hypothesis against these alternatives through studies of children, using environments whose 3D shape and 2D image properties were arranged to enhance or cancel impressions of depth. In the absence of training, children reoriented by subtle differences in perceived surface distance under conditions that challenge current models of 2D-image matching or comparison processes. We provide evidence that children's spontaneous navigation depends on representations of 3D layout geometry. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship Psychology en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Public Library of Science en_US
dc.relation.isversionof doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051373 en_US
dash.license OAP
dc.title Spontaneous Reorientation Is Guided by Perceived Surface Distance, Not by Image Matching or Comparison en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.description.version Author's Original en_US
dc.relation.journal PLoS ONE en_US
dash.depositing.author Spelke, Elizabeth S.
dc.date.available 2012-11-28T14:18:36Z

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