Ertl, Matthias; Klaus, Manuel; Brandt, Thomas; Dieterich, Marianne; Mast, Fred W. (11 September 2019). Distorted mental spatial representation of multi-level buildings - Humans are biased towards equilateral shapes (Unpublished). In: 16th SPS SGP SSP Conference. Bern. 09.09.-11.09.2019.
A distorted model of a familiar multi-level building with a systematic overestimation of the height was demonstrated in psychophysical and real space navigation tasks. In the current study we further investigated this phenomenon with a tablet-based application. Participants were asked to adjust height and width ratio of the presented buildings. The estimation errors between adjusted and true height-width ratios were analyzed. 142 subjects aged 21 to 90 years from the cities of Bern and Munich were tested. Major results were: 1) a median overestimation of the height of the multi-level buildings of 11%; 2) estimation errors were significantly less if the particular building was unknown to participants; 3) the height of tower-like buildings was underestimated, whereas that of long, flat shaped buildings was overestimated. Overall, our internal models of large multi-level buildings are distorted due to multiple factors including geometric features and memory effects.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Cognitive Psychology, Perception and Methodology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Ertl, Matthias, Klaus, Manuel Patrick, Mast, Fred |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Matthias Ertl |
Date Deposited: |
07 Jan 2021 17:18 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:30 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/133522 |
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