English
 
Help Privacy Policy Disclaimer
  Advanced SearchBrowse

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT

Released

Poster

Effects of path length, visual and interoceptive information on path integration

MPS-Authors
/persons/resource/persons84249

Tcheang,  L
Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

/persons/resource/persons83839

Bülthoff,  HH
Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

Fulltext (restricted access)
There are currently no full texts shared for your IP range.
Fulltext (public)
There are no public fulltexts stored in PuRe
Supplementary Material (public)
There is no public supplementary material available
Citation

Tcheang, L., Burgess, N., & Bülthoff, H. (2008). Effects of path length, visual and interoceptive information on path integration. Poster presented at 9th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2008), Hamburg, Germany.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-C85B-A
Abstract
A number of experiments have shown that path integration in darkness can be accomplished using interoceptive information. We examine the contribution of vision to the accumulation of translational information during path integration in a return to origin task, using a fully immersive cue-rich virtual environment. Nine paths with varying lengths and numbers of turns were tested. During walking the outward legs of a path, a mis-match was introduced between actual translation and the perceived translation of the virtual environment, which was either increased or decreased. The return leg of the path was performed without vision. The mis-match trials were interleaved with two control conditions; one where vision matched interoceptive information exactly on the outward paths, and one without any visual input. ANOVA analysis on sixteen subjects showed a significant effect of the visual manipulation. Return path lengths were consistent with the visual manipulation suggesting a strong visual component to 'path integration' in this task. A separate effect of path length, depending on path type suggests that distance is underestimated for longer paths with more turns.