Geometric Encoding
Document Type
Contribution to Book
Publication Date
5-3-2017
Publication Title
Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_857-1
ISBN
978-3-319-47829-6
Abstract
Successful movement between locations first requires the determination of a direction of travel, and understanding the process of determining a direction is the central focus of orientation research. As shown in the top panel of Fig. 1, the general approach to understanding orientation involves training disoriented participants to respond to a particular location within a rectangular enclosure (left). Importantly, this location is often uniquely specified by a distinctive feature. Interestingly, tests in the absence of the distinctive features reveal that participants not only respond to the originally trained location but also to its 180° rotationally equivalent location (right). Responses to this 180° rotationally equivalent location are termed a rotational error (for a review, see Cheng et al. 2013).
Recommended Citation
Sturz, Bradley R..
2017.
"Geometric Encoding."
Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior, Jennifer Vonk and Todd K. Shackelford (Ed.): 1-3 New York, NY: Springer.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_857-1 source: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_857-1 isbn: 978-3-319-47829-6
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/psych-facpubs/112
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