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People can form global spatial maps of new environments after just one walk. This spatial updating, or sensorimotor alignment, helps build mental representations of multiroom spaces.

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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Spatial Cognition
  • Human Navigation

Background:

  • Developing global spatial representations is crucial for navigation.
  • Understanding how humans build mental maps of complex environments is an ongoing research area.
  • Previous research has focused on within-room spatial learning, with less known about multiroom environments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the development of global spatial representations in multiroom environments after single-instance physical navigation.
  • To examine the role of sensorimotor alignment in forming these spatial representations.
  • To identify mechanisms underlying spatial updating in novel, multi-scale environments.

Main Methods:

  • Participants learned object locations in a virtual reality environment.

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  • They walked blindfolded to new locations within or across rooms.
  • Judgments of Relative Direction (JRD) were used to assess spatial representation accuracy under aligned and misaligned perspective conditions.

    • Main Results:

    • A significant global sensorimotor alignment effect was observed in across-boundary conditions, comparable to within-boundary conditions.
    • This effect indicates successful updating of actual heading relative to remembered object locations in novel spaces.
    • Further experiments confirmed robust global sensorimotor alignment effects regardless of encoding or retrieval manipulations.

    Conclusions:

    • One-shot physical walking enables the development of global spatial representations of multiroom environments.
    • Global spatial updating is a key mechanism for creating multiscale spatial representations.
    • Sensorimotor alignment plays a critical role in integrating egocentric and allocentric spatial information across novel spaces.