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Doerte Kuhrt¹, Natalie R St John², Jacob L S Bellmund³

¹Kavli Institute for Systems Neurocience, Centre for Neural Computation, The Egil and Pauline Braathen and Fred Kavli Centre for Cortical Microcircuits, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. dorte.kuhrt@ntnu.no.

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Virtual reality enables navigation of abstract knowledge. Both physical movement and gamepad control allowed participants to learn spatial representations, showing similar learning patterns in quantity spaces.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

Virtual reality (VR) advances spatial navigation research by controlling environmental variables.
Spatial navigation mechanisms are increasingly linked to non-spatial cognitive processes.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if virtual reality enables navigation of abstract knowledge.
To compare the effects of physical movement versus gamepad control on abstract space navigation.

Main Methods:

Participants navigated a 2D quantity space in VR using a head-mounted display.
Two groups were formed: one using a motion platform for walking/rotating, the other using a gamepad.

Main Results:

Both groups successfully learned to navigate the abstract quantity space and formed accurate mental representations.
Navigation behaviors in the abstract space mirrored those in real-world spatial navigation studies.
Learning patterns were similar across both physical movement and gamepad control groups.

Conclusions:

First-person perspective navigation in VR facilitates learning of abstract relational mappings.
Both self-movement and remote exploration are effective for acquiring knowledge in abstract domains.