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Chia-Ling Li¹, M Pilar Aivar², Matthew H Tong³

¹Center for Perceptual Systems, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA. Sariel.cl.li@utexas.edu.

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Exploring visual search in virtual reality, this study shows that immersive environments enhance spatial memory. This leads to more efficient search strategies by leveraging learned spatial layouts and reducing physical effort.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Science
Neuroscience
Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

Visual search is typically studied using 2D displays, limiting understanding of real-world search involving body movement.
Naturalistic search occurs in large-scale spatial contexts, where the impact on search strategies remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate spatial memory representations during search in an immersive virtual environment.
To determine how body movement and large-scale spatial contexts influence visual search strategies.

Main Methods:

Subjects searched for targets within an immersive virtual environment.
Target locations were manipulated to assess reliance on different types of spatial memory.
Path length and head rotation were measured to quantify search efficiency.

Main Results:

Participants rapidly learned the global structure of the virtual space.
Search efficiency improved, evidenced by shorter paths and reduced head rotation.
Search performance demonstrated dependence on both episodic spatial memory and learned spatial priors.

Conclusions:

Spatial memory of global environmental structure facilitates efficient attention allocation during search.
Immersive virtual environments can support the development of effective spatial search strategies.
Spatial memory may enable less energetically demanding search behaviors in complex environments.