Acta Psychologica Sinica


Vol. 32 No. 1 , Pages 40 - 44 , 2000

Experiment Proof of Two-stage Model in Searching Imagined Space (Article written in chinese)

ZHANG Kan, MOU Weimin, & GUO Sumei

Abstract

Subjects read narratives describing directions of objects around an upright observer, who was periodically reoriented, and given a description of the objects in different positions around his body. Two-factor experiment supported that there were two stages in identifying which object was currently located at the observer’s front, back, right, and left. The first stage was identifying the direction assigned to the spatial relation by the relevant axis of the reference frame. The pattern of process time was front < back < right = left; the second stage was identifying the object in the probed directions. The pattern of process time was focus < opposition to focus < left to focus = right to focus. The two stages were serial.

Keywords: narrative; object-identification; direction; attention

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