@article{ref1,
title="Integrating route knowledge in an unfamiliar neighborhood: Along and across route experiments",
journal="Journal of environmental psychology",
year="1993",
author="Golledge, Reginald G. and Ruggles, Amy J. and Pellegrino, James W. and Gale, Nathan D.",
volume="13",
number="4",
pages="293-307",
abstract="This experiment was designed to examine how information obtained by learning two separate but partially overlapping routes in a relatively unfamiliar environment is integrated to provide locational, directional, and layout information about environmental features. The subject group was equally divided between adult males and females. A mixed land-use environment was chosen as the setting. The two partially overlapping routes were learned under uni- or bidirectional presentation conditions. Sequencing, distancing, and pointing tasks were used to access on-route and cross-route spatial knowledge. Various performance measures showed that when routes were learned bidirectionally performance was poorer. Results of cross-route pointing tasks indicated that integration of information had been achieved only marginally even though within-route sequence and distance information had been acquired at a reasonable level of proficiency. No gender differences were observed on any of the tasks. In general, the results raise a number of questions about the process of constructing representations of large-scale spaces and point out the difficulty effecting an integration of knowledge both within and across routes.<p />",
language="",
issn="0272-4944",
doi="10.1016/S0272-4944(05)80252-X",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0272-4944(05)80252-X"
}