Egocentric spatial framework effects from single and multiple points of view

• Published in: Memory & cognition Vol. 25; no. 5; pp. 677 - 690
• Main Authors: Maki, Ruth H., Marek, Michelle N.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Austin, TX Psychonomic Society 01.09.1997; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Attention; Biological and medical sciences; Cognition & reasoning; Cognition. Intelligence; Decision making; Defense Mechanisms; Discrimination Learning; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Individuality; Male; Memory; Mental Recall; Orientation; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Problem Solving; Psychology; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Reaction Time; Space Perception; Spatial perception. Time perception; Space; Human; Frame; Reading; Language; Narrative; Reference; Cognition; Localization
• ISSN: 0090-502X; 1532-5946
• DOI: 10.3758/BF03211310

In three experiments, we tested the one-place, one-perspective rule formulated by Franklin, Tversky, and Coon (1992). This rule proposes that subjects take a neutral, external perspective when they must use multiple viewpoints to make decisions about the locations of objects in memorized scenes. We compared responding from a single viewpoint with responding from two viewpoints. In Experiments 1 and 2, we used a sentence verification procedure, and in Experiment 3, we compared a true-false verification procedure with a six-alternative forced-choice procedure. Under these various conditions, we observed egocentric spatial framework effects in that above-below judgments were faster than front-back judgments and front-back judgments were faster than right-left judgments. When responding from two points of view in a single place, our subjects took multiple intrinsic perspectives rather than one neutral external perspective as proposed by the one-place, one-perspective rule.