The Role of Gender and Familiarity in a Modified Version of the Almeria Boxes Room Spatial Task
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Bocchi, Alessia; Palmiero, Massimiliano; Cimadevilla Redondo, Jose Manuel; Tascón, Laura; Nori, Raffaella; [et al.]Date
2021-05-22Abstract
ndividual factors like gender and familiarity can affect the kind of environmental representation that a person acquires during spatial navigation. Men seem to prefer relying on map-like survey representations, while women prefer using sequential route representations. Moreover, a good familiarity with the environment allows more complete environmental representations. This study was aimed at investigating gender differences in two different object-position learning tasks (i.e., Almeria Boxes Tasks) assuming a route or a survey perspective also considering the role of environmental familiarity. Two groups of participants had to learn the position of boxes placed in a virtual room. Participants had several trials, so that familiarity with the environment could increase. In both tasks, the effects of gender and familiarity were found, and only in the route perspective did an interaction effect emerge. This suggests that gender differences can be found regardless of the perspective taken,...
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spatial navigation
sex differences
environment familiarity
spatial learning
spatial knowledge
route
survey
virtual environments