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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Spatial Cognition
  • Human Navigation

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  • Individual differences in navigation skills are significant for survival.
  • Existing research uses diverse paradigms, but their interrelations and real-world validity are unclear.
  • Understanding how different assessment methods relate is crucial for accurate evaluation of navigation abilities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between navigation performance in real-world and virtual environments.
  • To determine the common and unique variance across different navigation assessment paradigms.
  • To evaluate the validity of virtual paradigms for assessing real-world navigation skills.

Main Methods:

  • A within-subjects design was used with 94 young adult participants.
  • Navigation skills were assessed in one real-world and two virtual environments.
  • Tasks included map building, object pointing, and shortest route finding.

Main Results:

  • Factor analysis revealed shared and unique performance variances across paradigms.
  • Virtual environment measures demonstrated correlation with real-world performance.
  • Individual differences in navigation showed common variance across paradigms, alongside unique paradigm-specific variation.

Conclusions:

  • Virtual navigation assessments can correlate with real-world performance.
  • The specific tasks within a paradigm are less critical than the paradigm itself.
  • Future research should employ multiple paradigms for robust and valid navigation assessments, potentially using shorter tasks.