eprintid: 50436 rev_number: 8 eprint_status: archive userid: 1482 importid: 105 dir: disk0/00/05/04/36 datestamp: 2025-02-11 09:31:03 lastmod: 2025-02-11 09:38:48 status_changed: 2025-02-11 09:31:03 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Pitt, Benjamin creators_id: benjamin.pitt@iast.fr creators_idrefppn: 283092645 creators_halaffid: 506116 title: Multidimensional spatial memory: One action, two reference frames ispublished: pub subjects: subjects_ECO abstract: Spatial cognition is fundamental to human behavior, but people differ in how they remember spatial relations, variably using body-based (egocentric) and environment-based (allocentric) spatial reference frames. Despite decades of study, the causes of this variation and flexibility in spatial memory remain unclear. Here we show that people spontaneously use different reference frames on different spatial axes at the same time. When remembering the placement of a target object in a 2-dimensional array, Indigenous Tsimane' adults preferentially used allocentric space to determine lateral placement and egocentric space to determine sagittal placement in the same action. This effect of axis was also significant among US university students, whose overall preference for egocentric space was stronger on the sagittal than lateral axis. These findings support a novel account of spatial cognitive diversity and suggest that people across cultures habitually integrate egocentric and allocentric spatial reference frames into the same action. date: 2024 date_type: published official_url: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/130342 faculty: tse divisions: tse language: en has_fulltext: TRUE view_date_year: 2024 full_text_status: public publication: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society volume: Vol. 46 place_of_pub: Seattle, WA pagerange: 276-282 refereed: TRUE issn: 1069-7977 oai_identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:130342 harvester_local_overwrite: volume harvester_local_overwrite: pending harvester_local_overwrite: creators_halaffid harvester_local_overwrite: pagerange harvester_local_overwrite: creators_id harvester_local_overwrite: place_of_pub harvester_local_overwrite: hal_id harvester_local_overwrite: hal_version harvester_local_overwrite: hal_url harvester_local_overwrite: hal_passwd harvester_local_overwrite: creators_idrefppn oai_lastmod: 2025-02-10T14:43:09Z oai_set: tse site: ut1 hal_id: hal-04939902 hal_passwd: &5u4x9d hal_version: 1 hal_url: https://hal.science/hal-04939902 citation: Pitt, Benjamin (2024) Multidimensional spatial memory: One action, two reference frames. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vol. 46. pp. 276-282. document_url: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/50436/1/Pitt_50436.pdf