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Spatial Cognition and Navigation

Scope: Mental rotation; spatial memory.

Note

Open issues: Very small at the process level because most spatial cognition is paradigm-specific (handled at the task level in task_details.json). If allocentric/egocentric representation, path integration, or boundary cell processing ever need process-level rows, they go here.

This category contains 2 processes.

Mental rotation

Process ID: hed_mental_rotation

Imagined rotation of a 2D or 3D figure to compare with another figure; RT increases linearly with angular disparity.

Tasks that engage this process: Mental Rotation Task

Fundamental references

• Shepard & Metzler (1971) Science 171:701–703 (DOI)

Further references

• Zacks (2008) Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 20:1–19 (DOI, PubMed)

Spatial memory

Process ID: hed_spatial_memory

Memory for the arrangement and location of objects and environments.

Tasks that engage this process: Corsi Block-Tapping Task, Mental Rotation Task, Virtual Morris Water Maze Task, Virtual Radial Arm Maze Task