The effects of different navigational aids on wayfinding and spatial memory for older adults.

IF 3.7 1区心理学 Q1 GERONTOLOGY Psychology and Aging Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Epub Date: 2023-04-27 DOI:10.1037/pag0000732

Ling Ai, Yingying Yang, Qi Wang

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Abstract

Navigation aids can help people conduct daily wayfinding activities. However, because of cognitive limitations that can emerge with age, it is not clear how different navigation aids impact wayfinding behaviors and spatial memory in older adults. In Experiment 1, 66 older adults and 65 younger adults participated. They were asked to make turn decisions when the navigation aid was a map, a map plus self-updating (Global Positioning System [GPS]), or a text. After the wayfinding task, they completed two spatial memory tasks recalling scenes and drawing the routes. Results showed that younger adults outperformed older adults on most outcome measures. The text and the GPS conditions benefited older adults' wayfinding behaviors more than the map condition, as indicated by route decision accuracies and reaction times. However, the map condition was associated with better route memory than the text condition. Experiment 2 aimed to replicate the results using more complex environments. Sixty-three older adults and 66 younger adults participated. The advantage of the text over the map conditions was again found in wayfinding behaviors for older adults. However, no difference was found between the map and the text conditions in route memory. No difference was found between the GPS and the map conditions in any outcome measures. Overall, our results showed the relative strengths and weaknesses of different navigation aids and the interactive effects between the type of navigation aid, age, outcome measure, and environmental complexity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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不同导航设备对老年人寻路和空间记忆的影响。

导航辅助设备可以帮助人们进行日常寻路活动。然而，由于随着年龄的增长可能出现的认知局限性，目前尚不清楚不同的导航设备如何影响老年人的寻路行为和空间记忆。在实验1中，66名老年人和65名年轻人参与了实验。当导航辅助是地图、地图加自我更新（全球定位系统[GPS]）或文本时，他们被要求做出转弯决定。在寻路任务之后，他们完成了回忆场景和绘制路线的两项空间记忆任务。结果显示，在大多数结果指标上，年轻人的表现优于老年人。文本和GPS条件对老年人的寻路行为的益处大于地图条件，如路线决策的准确性和反应时间所示。然而，地图条件与比文本条件更好的路线记忆相关。实验2旨在使用更复杂的环境来复制结果。63名老年人和66名年轻人参加了会议。在老年人的寻路行为中，再次发现了文本相对于地图条件的优势。然而，在路线记忆中的地图和文本条件之间没有发现差异。在任何结果测量中，GPS和地图条件之间都没有发现差异。总的来说，我们的研究结果显示了不同助航器的相对优势和劣势，以及助航器类型、年龄、结果测量和环境复杂性之间的交互影响。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2023 APA，保留所有权利）。

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期刊介绍： Psychology and Aging publishes original articles on adult development and aging. Such original articles include reports of research that may be applied, biobehavioral, clinical, educational, experimental (laboratory, field, or naturalistic studies), methodological, or psychosocial. Although the emphasis is on original research investigations, occasional theoretical analyses of research issues, practical clinical problems, or policy may appear, as well as critical reviews of a content area in adult development and aging. Clinical case studies that have theoretical significance are also appropriate. Brief reports are acceptable with the author"s agreement not to submit a full report to another journal.