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- Title
- The Information content of panoramic images II : view-based navigation in nonrectangular experimental arenas
- Related
- Journal of experimental psychology : animal behavior processes, Vol. 34, No. 1 (2008), p.15-30
- DOI
- 10.1037/0097-7403.34.1.15
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Date
- 2008
- FoR/RFCD Code(s)
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170100 Psychology
- Author/Creator
- Cheung, Allen
- Author/Creator
- Stürzl, Wolfgang
- Author/Creator
- Zeil, Jochen
- Author/Creator
- Cheng, Ken
- Description
- Two recent studies testing navigation of rats in swimming pools have posed problems for any account of the use of purely geometric properties of space in navigation ( M. Graham, M. A. Good, A. McGregor, & J. M. Pearce, 2006; J. M. Pearce, M. A. Good, P. M. Jones, & A. McGregor, 2004). The authors simulated 1 experiment from each study in a virtual reality environment to test whether experimental results could be explained by view-based navigation. The authors recorded a reference image at the target location and then determined global panoramic image differences between this image and images taken at regularly spaced locations throughout the arena. A formal model, in which an agent attempts to minimize image differences between the reference image and current views, generated trajectories that could be compared with the search performance of rats. For both experiments, this model mimics many aspects of rat behavior. View-based navigation provides a sufficient and parsimonious explanation for a range of navigational behaviors of rats under these experimental conditions.
- Description
- 16 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 170100 Psychology
- Subject Keyword
- spatial learning
- Subject Keyword
- view-based navigation
- Subject Keyword
- computer simulation
- Subject Keyword
- rats
- Subject Keyword
- geometry
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Biological Sciences
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/100265
- Identifier
- ISSN:0097-7403
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2007008095
- Language
- eng
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