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¹Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai, India. sudarshansudarshan@gmail.com

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Participants in a word-morph game learned to identify important "landmarks." These key game elements, crucial for navigation from source to destination, were found to have high closeness-centrality rankings.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Computational Linguistics
Network Science

Background:

Word games like word-morph engage cognitive processes related to learning and problem-solving.
Understanding how individuals learn and navigate complex systems is a key area of research.

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze the learning dynamics within the word-morph game.
To investigate the role of 'landmarks' in human navigation and learning.
To determine the network properties of identified landmarks.

Main Methods:

Participants engaged in a defined number of word-morph games.
Experimental data from gameplay was collected and analyzed.
Network analysis, specifically closeness-centrality, was applied to identify key nodes (landmarks).

Main Results:

Learning patterns within the word-morph game were detailed.
A tendency for participants to learn landmarks during navigation tasks was observed.
Landmarks were empirically identified as nodes with high closeness-centrality rankings.

Conclusions:

The word-morph game provides a model for studying human learning in navigation.
Individuals naturally identify and learn landmarks when navigating from a source to a destination.
Closeness-centrality is a significant network metric for identifying important navigational landmarks.