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Experience with the Cardinal Coordinate System Contributes to the Precision of Cognitive Maps
2017
Frontiers in Psychology
The coordinate system has been proposed as a fundamental and cross-culturally used spatial representation, through which people code location and direction information in the environment. Here we provided direct evidence demonstrating that daily experience with the cardinal coordinate system (i.e., east, west, north, and south) contributed to the representation of cognitive maps. Behaviorally, we found that individuals who relied more on the cardinal coordinate system for daily navigation made
doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01166
pmid:28744248
pmcid:PMC5504278
fatcat:mynhnsq2bnemhfspmbadyhdp5q