CAS PS 337 Lecture 12: Lecture #12
7 Aug 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Outline for today: different types of spatial knowledge, types of spatial navigation, how you use information about the world, components of spatial learning, relating navigation and memory. Types of spatial knowledge: landmark knowledge, salient objects of locations that provide navigational cues. Identify decision points: route knowledge, series of place-action associations. Response leaning: can i automate this, path integration. Types of navigation: path integration, continuous updating of position orientation in the environment, human path integration is coarse, but non-random. We"re not that good: relies on cues for self-motion (how fast and how far we"re moving, visual input optic flow, proprioception. People who had the sun could do it, but people who did it while it was cloudy and didn"t have the sun were. We can only do this if we have some external cue like the sun. Our internal cues just keep us going in circles: landmarks, beacon aiming/piloting, sort of thing you"d do if you have a lighthouse.
