Behavioral data investigating cognitive map structure using the recall order paradigm

The experiments are concerned with the structure of cognitive maps (i.e. which buildings belong together in subjects' spatial memory), as measured by the recall order paradigm (which assumes that buildings consistently recalled together belong together in spatial memory). Experiment 1 investigates whether the structure uncovered by the recall order paradigm is relevant to spatial memory, investigating the effects of this structure on distance estimation biases, sketch map accuracies, estimated walking times, and planning times, in environments well-known to subjects.

In Experiment 2, participants explore and learn 3D virtual reality environments, which are adjusted after each trial to allow a computational model to minimize its uncertainty regarding subjects' feature importances (allowing rapid learning of a computational model). Experiment 3 once again asks participants about environments well known to them (buildings in real cities they are familiar with), and applies the recall order paradigm to uncover map structure, in order to evaluate a computational model allowing the prediction of participants' cognitive map structures in advance.