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  • Human spatial cognition
  • Locomotion and navigation

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  • Animals exhibit superior horizontal spatial coding compared to vertical.
  • Flying animals do not show this horizontal advantage, unlike surface-dwelling animals.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate human spatial localization accuracy across different locomotion modes (flying, floor-wall, wall-only).
  • To determine if humans have a horizontal advantage in vertical or horizontal spatial coding.

Main Methods:

  • Participants localized objects in a virtual room using different locomotion methods: 3D flying, floor-to-wall movement, and wall-only movement.
  • Localization error variance was analyzed for horizontal and vertical dimensions.

Main Results:

  • The flying and floor-wall groups showed greater vertical than horizontal localization error.
  • The wall-only group reversed this pattern, with greater horizontal than vertical error.
  • The floor-wall group's movement deviated towards the ground, avoiding wall-based horizontal movement.

Conclusions:

  • Humans demonstrate a horizontal advantage for encoding object locations on a wall.
  • A vertical advantage is observed during wall locomotion, particularly when avoiding horizontal wall movement.