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  • To investigate how locational and orientational judgments are affected by stimuli type and encoding.
  • To identify factors influencing spatial relation verification in college students.

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  • College students performed choice reaction time tasks verifying spatial relations (locational/orientational).
  • Stimuli included U.S. states, symbols, and letter arrays, with varying alignment and distance.
  • Materials were either memorized or presented within the display.

Main Results:

  • Locational judgments were slower for horizontal than vertical stimuli and faster with greater distance.
  • Orientational judgments varied: states were slower horizontally, letters faster horizontally, symbols unaffected.
  • A significant 'left-right' effect was identified in locational judgments.

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  • Orientational judgments depend on material type and memorization.
  • Locational judgments are uniquely challenged by the left-right discrimination task.
  • Understanding these spatial processing differences informs cognitive models and interface design.