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Restructuring the navigational field: individual predisposition towards field independence predicts preferred navigational strategy

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Author	Boccia, Maddalena Piccardi, Laura D’Alessandro, Adele ri, Raffaella Guariglia, Cecilia
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	To successfully navigate within an environment, individuals have to organize the spatial information in terms of salient landmarks, paths and general layout of the navigational environment. They may differ in the strategy they adopt to orientate themselves, with some individuals preferring to use salient landmarks (landmark spatial style, L-SS), others preferring to plan routes or paths through an egocentric strategy in which landmarks are connected with each other (route spatial style, R-SS) and others still create a global map-like configuration of the environment regardless of their own position in the environment (survey spatial style, S-SS). Here, we assessed whether Field independence (FI), that is the extent to which the individual perceives part of a field as discrete from the surrounding field rather than embedded in the field, predicted the individual’s spatial style. We assessed the individual’s spatial style using the spatial cognitive style test (SCST) and measured FI using the group embedded figure test (GEFT). We found that FI predicted general spatial ability, with a higher level of FI being associated with better performances on the SCST. Also, Field-independent individuals showed a marked preference for an S-SS. These results suggest that a higher level of FI is associated with better performance on higher level spatial tasks (i.e. R-SS and S-SS) that is tasks requiring individuals to restructure the “navigational field” according to the navigational goal. The results also suggest that a higher level of FI makes individuals more prone to use a global and complex map-like representation of the environment.
Starting Page	1741
Ending Page	1748
Page Count	8
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ISSN	00144819
Journal	Experimental Brain Research
Volume Number	235
Issue Number	6
e-ISSN	14321106
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2017-03-10
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Field dependence Cognitive style Topographical orientation Egocentric Allocentric Cognitive map Neurosciences Neurology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Neuroscience

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