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  Visual Homing is possible without Landmarks: A Path Integration Study in Virtual Reality

Riecke, B., van Veen, H., & Bülthoff, H. (2002). Visual Homing is possible without Landmarks: A Path Integration Study in Virtual Reality. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 11(5), 443-473. doi:10.1162/105474602320935810.

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Riecke, BE1, 2, Author           
van Veen, HAHC, Author           
Bülthoff, HH1, 2, Author           
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1Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, ou_1497797              
2Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, Spemannstrasse 38, 72076 Tübingen, DE, ou_1497794              

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 Abstract: The literature often suggests that proprioceptive and especially vestibular cues are required for navigation and spatial orientation tasks involving rotations of the observer. To test this notion, we conducted a set of experiments in virtual environments where only visual cues were provided. Participants had to execute turns, reproduce distances or perform triangle completion tasks. Most experiments were performed in a simulated 3D field of blobs, thus restricting navigation strategies to path integration based on optic flow. For our experimental setup (half-cylindrical 180° projection screen), optic flow information alone proved to be sufficient for untrained participants to perform turns and reproduce distances with negligible systematic errors, irrespective of movement velocity. Path integration by optic flow was sufficient for homing by triangle completion, but homing distances were biased towards the mean response. Additional landmarks that were only temporarily available did not improve homing performance. However, navigation by stable, reliable landmarks led to almost perfect homing performance. Mental spatial ability test scores correlated positively with homing performance especially for the more complex triangle completion tasks, suggesting that mental spatial abilities might be a determining factor for navigation performance. In summary, visual path integration without any vestibular or kinesthetic cues can be sufficient for elementary navigation tasks like rotations, translations, and triangle completion.

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 Dates: 2002-10
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1162/105474602320935810
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Title: Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
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Publ. Info: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press
Pages: - Volume / Issue: 11 (5) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 443 - 473 Identifier: ISSN: 1054-7460
CoNE: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/journals/resource/954925595533