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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Human Spatial Cognition
  • Perception

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  • Spatial scaling is crucial for navigation and environmental understanding.
  • Previous research has explored spatial abilities across different sensory modalities.
  • The impact of visual deprivation on spatial scaling with tactile graphics remains less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how visual, haptic, and bimodal (visual and haptic) sensory conditions affect adults' spatial-scaling abilities.
  • To determine the influence of varying map scaling factors on spatial memory recall across perceptual conditions.

Main Methods:

  • Sixty adults completed a spatial memory task involving encoding target positions on tactile maps.
  • Participants were assigned to three groups: haptic (blindfolded), visual, or bimodal.
  • Map sizes were varied using scaling factors (1:4, 1:2, 1:1) while the referent space remained constant.

Main Results:

  • Haptic-only spatial perception resulted in significantly larger errors than visual or bimodal perception.
  • An interaction between scaling factor and perceptual condition was observed.
  • Linear error increase with scaling in visual/bimodal conditions contrasted with quadratic increase in haptic conditions.

Conclusions:

  • Visual information is critical for accurate spatial scaling in adults.
  • Spatial scaling strategies differ across perceptual modalities, with visual input facilitating mental transformation.
  • Haptic-only spatial tasks present unique challenges for adults, impacting performance particularly with scaled maps.