The impact of emotionally significant information on the features of the spatial perception of urban objects on the map

 
PIIS020595920014249-9-1
DOI10.31857/S020595920014249-9
Publication type Article
Status Published
Authors
Occupation: Research assistant in Laboratory of Сognitive Psychology of Digital Interfaces User
Affiliation: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Address: Moscow, Myasnitskaya st., 20
Occupation: Student
Affiliation: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Address: Myasnitskaya st., 20
Occupation: Research assistant in Laboratory for Cognitive Research
Affiliation: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Address: Myasnitskaya st., 20
Occupation: Head of the Laboratory of Сognitive Psychology of Digital Interfaces User
Affiliation: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Address: Myasnitskaya st., 20
Journal namePsikhologicheskii zhurnal
EditionVolume 42 issue 2
Pages98-105
Abstract

In this study we investigated the influence of the emotional and motivational systems on the person's perception and memory for the object’s locations on the city map. We used a map with seven different objects of urban infrastructure. Their description was compiled in neutral and negative emotional information forms. The subjects (N=55) were studying the map for five minutes and after 20 minutes had to reproduce object’s locations from the memory. We evaluated the dependence of the number of reproduced objects and the precision of their locations on the map from the information received about the objects. To analyze the results, the Mann-Whitney test was used. We showed that the spatial location on the map of objects of urban infrastructure that have emotionally significant characteristics was perceived and remembered more accurately than the location of neutral objects. At the same time, the presence of an emotional stimulus on the map did not lead to a significant deterioration in the memorization of the neutral object’s locations. Insufficient activation of attention resources in the perception of neutral objects led to an imprecise reproduction of their location and, as a result, to an overestimation of the distance from the subject’s location on the map to the neutral object.

Keywordsspatial perception, resources of attention, memory, emotional reaction, cognitive errors
AcknowledgmentThis work was carried out within the framework of the HSE Program of Basic Research in 2020 (T3-111).
Received24.03.2021
Publication date04.04.2021
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