Task Irrelevant Scene Perception and Memory During Human Bipedal Navigation in a Genuine Environment

Thomas, M., Carruth, D. W., McGinley, J., & Follett, F. (2006). Task Irrelevant Scene Perception and Memory During Human Bipedal Navigation in a Genuine Environment. In Proceedings of the 25th Army Science Conference. Orlando, FL.

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Navigation by humans to and from a point of origin while walking is a little understood ability. A portable eye tracker was used to investigate navigation while walking as well as to investigate incidental visual memory for the navigational scenes. Twelve males with a mean age of 19.08 years (R = 18 - 24) were assigned a task that required walking in a novel environment and returning to a point of origin. Participants appeared to accomplish navigation by using multiple methods and strategies. Incidental visual memory was found to be 58.82%.