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Reframing spatial frames of reference: What can aging tell us about egocentric and allocentric navigation?
Author(s) -
LadykaWojcik Natalia,
Barense Morgan D.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
wiley interdisciplinary reviews: cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.526
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1939-5086
pISSN - 1939-5078
DOI - 10.1002/wcs.1549
Subject(s) - mnemonic , reference frame , landmark , frame of reference , spatial cognition , psychology , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , cognitive map , spatial memory , cognitive reframing , operationalization , cognition , conceptualization , frame (networking) , computer science , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , social psychology , working memory , epistemology , telecommunications , physics , quantum mechanics , philosophy
Representations of space in mind are crucial for navigation, facilitating processes such as remembering landmark locations, understanding spatial relationships between objects, and integrating routes. A significant problem, however, is the lack of consensus on how these representations are encoded and stored in memory. Specifically, the nature of egocentric and allocentric frames of reference in human memory is widely debated. Yet, in recent investigations of the spatial domain across the lifespan, these distinctions in mnemonic spatial frames of reference have identified age‐related impairments. In this review, we survey the ways in which different terms related to spatial representations in memory have been operationalized in past aging research and suggest a taxonomy to provide a common language for future investigations and theoretical discussion. This article is categorized under: Psychology > Memory Neuroscience > Cognition Psychology > Development and Aging