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Robbins CJ, Rogers J, Walton S, Allen HA, Chapman P. The effect of a secondary task on drivers' gap acceptance and situational awareness at junctions. ERGONOMICS 2021; 64:184-198. [PMID: 33016818 DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2020.1822548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2020] [Accepted: 09/04/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The current studies explored the roles of the visuospatial and phonological working memory subsystems on drivers' gap acceptance and memory for approaching vehicles at junctions. Drivers' behaviour was measured in a high-fidelity driving simulator when at a junction, with, and without a visuospatial or phonological load. When asked to judge when to advance across the junction, gap acceptance thresholds, memory for vehicles and eye movements were not different when there was a secondary task compared to control. However, drivers' secondary task performance was more impaired in the visuospatial than phonological domain. These findings suggest that drivers were able to accept impairment in the secondary task while maintaining appropriate safety margins and situational awareness. These findings can inform the development of in-car technologies, improving the safety of road users at junctions. Practitioner summary: Despite research indicating that concurrent performance on working memory tasks impairs driving, a matched visuospatial or phonological memory load did not change drivers' gap acceptance or situational awareness at junctions. Drivers displayed appropriate compensatory behaviour by prioritising the driving task over the visuospatial secondary task. Abbreviations: ROW: right of way; RIG: random time interval generation.
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- Chloe J Robbins
- School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- School of Architecture, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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Dai R, Thomas AK, Taylor HA. When to look at maps in navigation: metacognitive control in environment learning. Cogn Res Princ Implic 2018. [PMCID: PMC6156696 DOI: 10.1186/s41235-018-0130-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Nys M, Hickmann M, Gyselinck V. The role of verbal and visuo-spatial working memory in the encoding of virtual routes by children and adults. JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2018.1523175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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- Marion Nys
- Laboratoire Mémoire et Cognition, Institut de psychologie & Inserm UMR S894, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris-Cité, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Structures Formelles du Langage, CNRS UMR 7023, Université de Paris, Paris, France
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Lammert-Siepmann N, Bestgen AK, Edler D, Kuchinke L, Dickmann F. Audiovisual communication of object-names improves the spatial accuracy of recalled object-locations in topographic maps. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0186065. [PMID: 29059237 PMCID: PMC5653198 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2016] [Accepted: 09/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Knowing the correct location of a specific object learned from a (topographic) map is fundamental for orientation and navigation tasks. Spatial reference systems, such as coordinates or cardinal directions, are helpful tools for any geometric localization of positions that aims to be as exact as possible. Considering modern visualization techniques of multimedia cartography, map elements transferred through the auditory channel can be added easily. Audiovisual approaches have been discussed in the cartographic community for many years. However, the effectiveness of audiovisual map elements for map use has hardly been explored so far. Within an interdisciplinary (cartography-cognitive psychology) research project, it is examined whether map users remember object-locations better if they do not just read the corresponding place names, but also listen to them as voice recordings. This approach is based on the idea that learning object-identities influences learning object-locations, which is crucial for map-reading tasks. The results of an empirical study show that the additional auditory communication of object names not only improves memory for the names (object-identities), but also for the spatial accuracy of their corresponding object-locations. The audiovisual communication of semantic attribute information of a spatial object seems to improve the binding of object-identity and object-location, which enhances the spatial accuracy of object-location memory.
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- Geomatics/Cartography Group, Geography Department, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
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- Geomatics/Cartography Group, Geography Department, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
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- Methodology and Evaluation, International Psychoanalytical University Berlin, Germany
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- Geomatics/Cartography Group, Geography Department, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
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Burte H, Montello DR. How sense-of-direction and learning intentionality relate to spatial knowledge acquisition in the environment. COGNITIVE RESEARCH-PRINCIPLES AND IMPLICATIONS 2017; 2:18. [PMID: 28367498 PMCID: PMC5357662 DOI: 10.1186/s41235-017-0057-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2016] [Accepted: 02/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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People’s impression of their own “sense-of-direction” (SOD) is related to their ability to effectively find their way through environments, such as neighborhoods and cities, but is also related to the speed and accuracy with which they learn new environments. In the current literature, it is unclear whether the cognitive skills underlying SOD require intentional cognitive effort to produce accurate knowledge of a new environment. The cognitive skills underlying SOD could exert their influence automatically—without conscious intention—or they might need to be intentionally and effortfully applied. Determining the intentionality of acquiring environmental spatial knowledge would shed light on whether individuals with a poor SOD can be trained to use the skill set of an individual with good SOD, thereby improving their wayfinding and spatial learning. Therefore, this research investigates the accuracy of spatial knowledge acquisition during a walk through a previously unfamiliar neighborhood by individuals with differing levels of self-assessed SOD, as a function of whether their spatial learning was intentional or incidental. After walking a route through the neighborhood, participants completed landmark, route, and survey knowledge tasks. SOD was related to the accuracy of acquired spatial knowledge, as has been found previously. However, learning intentionality did not affect spatial knowledge acquisition, neither as a main effect nor in interaction with SOD. This research reveals that while the accuracy of spatial knowledge acquired via direct travel through an environment is validly measured by self-reported SOD, the spatial skills behind a good SOD appear to operate with or without intentional application.
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- Heather Burte
- Department of Psychology, Tufts University, 490 Boston Ave, Medford, MA 02155 USA
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- Department of Geography, University of California Santa Barbara, 1832 Ellison Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
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Barrow JH, Baldwin CL. Individual differences in verbal-spatial conflict in rapid spatial-orientation tasks. HUMAN FACTORS 2015; 57:507-522. [PMID: 25875438 DOI: 10.1177/0018720814553792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2013] [Accepted: 08/12/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The impact of interference from irrelevant spatial versus verbal cues is investigated in an auditory spatial Stroop task, and individual differences in navigation strategy are examined as a moderating factor. BACKGROUND Verbal-spatial cue conflict in the auditory modality has not been extensively studied, and yet the potential for such conflict can be high in certain settings, such as modern aircraft and automobile cockpits, where multiple warning systems and verbally delivered instructions may compete for the operator's spatial attention. METHOD Two studies are presented in which participants responded to either the semantic meaning or the spatial location of directional words, which were presented from congruent and incongruent locations. A subset was selected from the larger sample for additional analyses based on their navigation strategy. RESULTS Results demonstrated greater interference when participants were responding to the spatial location and thus attempting to ignore conflicting semantic information. Participants with a verbal navigation strategy paralleled this finding. Conversely, highly spatial navigators responded faster to spatially relevant information but did not show corresponding interference when trying to ignore spatial information. CONCLUSION The findings suggest that people have fundamentally different approaches to the use of auditory spatial information that manifest at the early level of orienting toward a single word or sound. APPLICATION When designing spatial information displays and warning systems, particularly those with an auditory component, designers should ensure that either verbal-directional or nonverbal-spatial information is utilized by all alerts to reduce interference.
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Jones KT, Gözenman F, Berryhill ME. The strategy and motivational influences on the beneficial effect of neurostimulation: a tDCS and fNIRS study. Neuroimage 2014; 105:238-47. [PMID: 25462798 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.11.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2014] [Revised: 11/03/2014] [Accepted: 11/04/2014] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Working memory (WM) capacity falls along a spectrum with some people demonstrating higher and others lower WM capacity. Efforts to improve WM include applying transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), in which small amounts of current modulate the activity of underlying neurons and enhance cognitive function. However, not everyone benefits equally from a given tDCS protocol. Recent findings revealed tDCS-related WM benefits for individuals with higher working memory (WM) capacity. Here, we test two hypotheses regarding those with low WM capacity to see if they too would benefit under more optimal conditions. We tested whether supplying a WM strategy (Experiment 1) or providing greater extrinsic motivation through incentives (Experiment 2) would restore tDCS benefit to the low WM capacity group. We also employed functional near infrared spectroscopy to monitor tDCS-induced changes in neural activity. Experiment 1 demonstrated that supplying a WM strategy improved the high WM capacity participants' accuracy and the amount of oxygenated blood levels following anodal tDCS, but it did not restore tDCS-linked WM benefits to the low WM capacity group. Experiment 2 demonstrated that financial motivation enhanced performance in both low and high WM capacity groups, especially after anodal tDCS. Here, only the low WM capacity participants showed a generalized increase in oxygenated blood flow across both low and high motivation conditions. These results indicate that ensuring that participants' incentives are high may expand cognitive benefits associated with tDCS. This finding is relevant for translational work using tDCS in clinical populations, in which motivation can be a concern.
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- Kevin T Jones
- Department of Psychology, Program in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 North Virginia Street, NV 89557, USA; Department of Neurology, Center for Aphasia Research and Rehabilitation, Georgetown University Medical Center, 4000 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, D.C. 20057, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Program in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 North Virginia Street, NV 89557, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Program in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 North Virginia Street, NV 89557, USA
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The role of spatial abilities and self-assessments in cardinal point orientation across the lifespan. LEARNING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2014.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Occelli V, Lin JB, Lacey S, Sathian K. Loss of form vision impairs spatial imagery. Front Hum Neurosci 2014; 8:159. [PMID: 24678294 PMCID: PMC3958697 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2014] [Accepted: 03/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Previous studies have reported inconsistent results when comparing spatial imagery performance in the blind and the sighted, with some, but not all, studies demonstrating deficits in the blind. Here, we investigated the effect of visual status and individual preferences ("cognitive style") on performance of a spatial imagery task. Participants with blindness resulting in the loss of form vision at or after age 6, and age- and gender-matched sighted participants, performed a spatial imagery task requiring memorization of a 4 × 4 lettered matrix and subsequent mental construction of shapes within the matrix from four-letter auditory cues. They also completed the Santa Barbara Sense of Direction Scale (SBSoDS) and a self-evaluation of cognitive style. The sighted participants also completed the Object-Spatial Imagery and Verbal Questionnaire (OSIVQ). Visual status affected performance on the spatial imagery task: the blind performed significantly worse than the sighted, independently of the age at which form vision was completely lost. Visual status did not affect the distribution of preferences based on self-reported cognitive style. Across all participants, self-reported verbalizer scores were significantly negatively correlated with accuracy on the spatial imagery task. There was a positive correlation between the SBSoDS score and accuracy on the spatial imagery task, across all participants, indicating that a better sense of direction is related to a more proficient spatial representation and that the imagery task indexes ecologically relevant spatial abilities. Moreover, the older the participants were, the worse their performance was, indicating a detrimental effect of age on spatial imagery performance. Thus, spatial skills represent an important target for rehabilitative approaches to visual impairment, and individual differences, which can modulate performance, should be taken into account in such approaches.
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- Department of Neurology, Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA ; Rehabilitation Medicine, Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA ; Psychology, Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA ; Rehabilitation R&D Center of Excellence, Atlanta VAMC Decatur, GA, USA
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Mental representations derived from spatial descriptions: the influence of orientation specificity and visuospatial abilities. PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2014; 79:289-307. [DOI: 10.1007/s00426-014-0560-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2013] [Accepted: 03/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Buzzell GA, Roberts DM, Baldwin CL, McDonald CG. An electrophysiological correlate of conflict processing in an auditory spatial Stroop task: the effect of individual differences in navigational style. Int J Psychophysiol 2013; 90:265-71. [PMID: 23994425 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2013.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2013] [Revised: 07/05/2013] [Accepted: 08/21/2013] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Recent work has identified an event-related potential (ERP) component, the incongruency negativity (N(inc)), which is sensitive to auditory Stroop conflict processing. Here, we investigated how this index of conflict processing is influenced by individual differences in cognitive style. There is evidence that individuals differ in the strategy they use to navigate through the environment; some use a predominantly verbal-egocentric strategy while others rely more heavily on a spatial-allocentric strategy. In addition, navigational strategy, assessed by a way-finding questionnaire, is predictive of performance on an auditory spatial Stroop task, in which either the semantic or spatial dimension of stimuli must be ignored. To explore the influence of individual differences in navigational style on conflict processing, participants took part in an auditory spatial Stroop task while the electroencephalogram (EEG) was recorded. Whereas behavioral performance only showed a main effect of congruency, we observed the predicted three-way interaction between congruency, task type and navigational style with respect to our physiological measure of Stroop conflict. Specifically, congruency-dependent modulation of the N(inc) was observed only when participants performed their non-dominant task (e.g., verbal navigators attempting to ignore semantic information). These results confirm that the N(inc) reliably indexes auditory Stroop conflict and extend previous results by demonstrating that the N(inc) is predictably modulated by individual differences in cognitive style.
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- George A Buzzell
- George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA; Center of Excellence in Neuroergonomics, Technology, and Cognition (CENTEC), Fairfax, VA, USA.
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Meneghetti C, Ronconi L, Pazzaglia F, De Beni R. Spatial mental representations derived from spatial descriptions: The predicting and mediating roles of spatial preferences, strategies, and abilities. Br J Psychol 2013; 105:295-315. [DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2012] [Revised: 04/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Department of General Psychology; University of Padua; Italy
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- Department of General Psychology; University of Padua; Italy
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Gras D, Gyselinck V, Perrussel M, Orriols E, Piolino P. The role of working memory components and visuospatial abilities in route learning within a virtual environment. JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY 2013. [DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2012.739154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Picucci L, Gyselinck V, Piolino P, Nicolas S, Bosco A. Spatial Mental Models: The Interaction of Presentation Format, Task Requirements and Availability of Working Memory Components. APPLIED COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/acp.2909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”; Italy
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Avraamides MN, Galati A, Papadopoulou C. Egocentric updating of remote locations. PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s00426-012-0465-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Chen JYC, Barnes MJ. Supervisory control of multiple robots in dynamic tasking environments. ERGONOMICS 2012; 55:1043-1058. [PMID: 22676776 DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2012.689013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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A military targeting environment was simulated to examine the effects of an intelligent route-planning agent RoboLeader, which could support dynamic robot re-tasking based on battlefield developments, on the performance of robotics operators. We manipulated the level of assistance (LOAs) provided by RoboLeader as well as the presence of a visualisation tool that provided feedback to the participants on their primary task (target encapsulation) performance. Results showed that the participants' primary task benefited from RoboLeader on all LOAs conditions compared to manual performance; however, visualisation had little effect. Frequent video gamers demonstrated significantly better situation awareness of the mission environment than did infrequent gamers. Those participants with higher spatial ability performed better on a secondary target detection task than did those with lower spatial ability. Finally, participants' workload assessments were significantly lower when they were assisted by RoboLeader than when they performed the target entrapment task manually. Practitioner Summary: This study demonstrated the utility of an intelligent agent for enhancing robotics operators' supervisory control performance as well as reducing their workload during a complex urban scenario involving moving targets. The results furthered the understanding of the interplay among level-of-autonomy, multitasking performance and individual differences in military tasking environments.
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- Jessie Y C Chen
- U.S. Army Research Laboratory - Human Research & Engineering Directorate, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, USA
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Farran EK, Courbois Y, Van Herwegen J, Cruickshank AG, Blades M. Colour as an environmental cue when learning a route in a virtual environment: typical and atypical development. RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES 2012; 33:900-908. [PMID: 22240144 DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2011.11.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2011] [Revised: 11/25/2011] [Accepted: 11/29/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Typically developing (TD) 6-year-olds and 9-year-olds, and older children and adults with Williams syndrome (WS) navigated through brick-wall mazes in a virtual environment. Participants were shown a route through three mazes, each with 6 turns. In each maze the floor of each path section was a different colour such that colour acted as an environmental cue. The colours employed were either easy to verbalise (focal colours) or difficult to verbalise (non-focal colours). We investigated whether participants would verbally code the colour information in the focal colour condition only, and whether this facilitated route-learning. All groups could learn the routes; the WS group required more learning trials to learn the route and achieved lower memory scores than both of the TD groups. Despite this, all groups showed the same pattern of results. There was no effect of condition on the ability to learn the maze. However, when asked which colours featured in each route, higher memory scores were achieved for the focal colour (verbalisable) than the non-focal colour (non-verbalisable) condition. This suggests that, in both young children and individuals with WS, once a route has been learnt, the nature of the environmental cues within it can impact an individual's representation of that route.
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- Emily K Farran
- Department of Psychology and Human Development, University of London, London, UK.
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Jones KT, Berryhill ME. Parietal contributions to visual working memory depend on task difficulty. Front Psychiatry 2012; 3:81. [PMID: 22973241 PMCID: PMC3437464 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2012.00081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2012] [Accepted: 08/21/2012] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The nature of parietal contributions to working memory (WM) remain poorly understood but of considerable interest. We previously reported that posterior parietal damage selectively impaired WM probed by recognition (Berryhill and Olson, 2008a). Recent studies provided support using a neuromodulatory technique, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) applied to the right parietal cortex (P4). These studies confirmed parietal involvement in WM because parietal tDCS altered WM performance: anodal current tDCS improved performance in a change detection task, and cathodal current tDCS impaired performance on a sequential presentation task. Here, we tested whether these complementary results were due to different degrees of parietal involvement as a function of WM task demands, WM task difficulty, and/or participants' WM capacity. In Experiment 1, we applied cathodal and anodal tDCS to the right parietal cortex and tested participants on both previously used WM tasks. We observed an interaction between tDCS (anodal, cathodal), WM task difficulty, and participants' WM capacity. When the WM task was difficult, parietal stimulation (anodal or cathodal) improved WM performance selectively in participants with high WM capacity. In the low WM capacity group, parietal stimulation (anodal or cathodal) impaired WM performance. These nearly equal and opposite effects were only observed when the WM task was challenging, as in the change detection task. Experiment 2 probed the interplay of WM task difficulty and WM capacity in a parametric manner by varying set size in the WM change detection task. Here, the effect of parietal stimulation (anodal or cathodal) on the high WM capacity group followed a linear function as WM task difficulty increased with set size. The low WM capacity participants were largely unaffected by tDCS. These findings provide evidence that parietal involvement in WM performance depends on both WM capacity and WM task demands. We discuss these findings in terms of alternative WM strategies employed by low and high WM capacity individuals. We speculate that low WM capacity individuals do not recruit the posterior parietal lobe for WM tasks as efficiently as high WM capacity individuals. Consequently, tDCS provides greater benefit to individuals with high WM capacity.
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- Kevin T Jones
- Memory and Brain Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Nevada Reno, NV, USA
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Eccles DW, Ward P, Woodman T, Janelle CM, Le Scanff C, Ehrlinger J, Castanier C, Coombes SA. Where's the emotion? How sport psychology can inform research on emotion in human factors. HUMAN FACTORS 2011; 53:180-202. [PMID: 21702335 DOI: 10.1177/0018720811403731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to demonstrate how research on emotion in sport psychology might inform the field of human factors. BACKGROUND Human factors historically has paid little attention to the role of emotion within the research on human-system relations. The theories, methods, and practices related to research on emotion within sport psychology might be informative for human factors because fundamentally, sport psychology and human factors are applied fields concerned with enhancing performance in complex, real-world domains. METHOD Reviews of three areas of theory and research on emotion in sport psychology are presented, and the relevancy of each area for human factors is proposed: (a) emotional preparation and regulation for performance, (b) an emotional trait explanation for risk taking in sport, and (c) the link between emotion and motor behavior. Finally, there are suggestions for how to continue cross-talk between human factors and sport psychology about research on emotion and related topics in the future. RESULTS The relevance of theory and research on emotion in sport psychology for human factors is demonstrated. CONCLUSION The human factors field and, in particular, research on human-system relations may benefit from a consideration of theory and research on emotion in sport psychology. APPLICATION Theories, methods, and practices from sport psychology might be applied usefully to human factors.
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- David W Eccles
- Learning Systems Institute, Florida State University, C-4600 University Center, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA.
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Marsh HL, Spetch ML, MacDonald SE. Strategies in landmark use by orangutans and human children. Anim Cogn 2011; 14:487-502. [DOI: 10.1007/s10071-011-0382-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2010] [Revised: 11/26/2010] [Accepted: 01/26/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Chen JYC. UAV-guided navigation for ground robot tele-operation in a military reconnaissance environment. ERGONOMICS 2010; 53:940-950. [PMID: 20658388 DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2010.500404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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A military reconnaissance environment was simulated to examine the performance of ground robotics operators who were instructed to utilise streaming video from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to navigate his/her ground robot to the locations of the targets. The effects of participants' spatial ability on their performance and workload were also investigated. Results showed that participants' overall performance (speed and accuracy) was better when she/he had access to images from larger UAVs with fixed orientations, compared with other UAV conditions (baseline- no UAV, micro air vehicle and UAV with orbiting views). Participants experienced the highest workload when the UAV was orbiting. Those individuals with higher spatial ability performed significantly better and reported less workload than those with lower spatial ability. The results of the current study will further understanding of ground robot operators' target search performance based on streaming video from UAVs. The results will also facilitate the implementation of ground/air robots in military environments and will be useful to the future military system design and training community.
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- Jessie Y C Chen
- US Army Research Laboratory - Human Research & Engineering Directorate, Orlando, FL, USA.
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