Topic: orientation cues

Navigation towards a goal in previously unknown environments likely involves storing and replaying sequences of relevant spatial information. Previous studies on spatial memory adopted “cartography” paradigms in which subjects, typically moving in 2D, could remember and then rely on salient cues, such as landmarks or orientation cues. Little is known about navigation in curved environments with minimal salient information. The present project investigates such a capacity in a sparse, spheric, three-dimensional virtual reality environment that lacks salient landmarks and orientation cues. This