scholarly journals The hippocampus is not a geometric module: processing environment geometry during reorientation

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer E. Sutton ◽  
Nora S. Newcombe
Keyword(s):  
Geometric Module

scholarly journals Five Reasons to Doubt the Existence of a Geometric Module

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (7) ◽  
pp. 1315-1356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra D. Twyman ◽  
Nora S. Newcombe
Keyword(s):  
Geometric Module

Reorienting When Cues Conflict

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 1301-1307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin R. Ratliff ◽  
Nora S. Newcombe
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Human Case ◽  
Geometric Module ◽  
Geometric Information ◽  
Adaptive Combination ◽  
Learning History ◽  
Spatial Reorientation ◽  
Human Adults ◽  
Geometric Cues ◽  
Small Room

Proponents of a geometric module claim that human adults accomplish spatial reorientation in a fundamentally different way than young children and non-human animals do. However, reporting two experiments that used a conflict paradigm, this article shows striking similarities between human adults and young children, as well as nonhuman animals. Specifically, Experiment 1 demonstrates that adults favor geometric information in a small room and rely on features in a larger room, whereas Experiment 2 demonstrates that experience in a larger room produces dominance of features over geometric cues in a small room—the first human case of reliance on features that contradict geometric information. Thus, use of features during reorientation depends on the size of the environment and learning history. These results clearly undermine the modularity claim and the view that feature use during reorientation is purely associative, and we discuss the findings within an adaptive-combination view, according to which a weighting system determines use of feature or geometric cues during reorientation.

A purely geometric module in human spatial cognition?

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Brodbeck ◽  
Andrea E. Pike ◽  
B. Cory Spracklin
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Cognition ◽  
Geometric Module

scholarly journals The geometric module in the rat: independence of shape and feature learning in a food finding task

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia L. Wall ◽  
Leigh C. P. Botly ◽  
Christina K. Black ◽  
Sara J. Shettleworth
Keyword(s):  
Feature Learning ◽  
Geometric Module

Polar modules

1957 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 554-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Rees
Keyword(s):  
Vector Space ◽  
Homomorphic Image ◽  
Finitely Generated ◽  
Linear Transformations ◽  
Geometric Module

This paper is concerned with what, for lack of a better name, the author proposes to call geometric modules over a field k. These modules are defined as follows. A geometric module M consists of a vector space, also denoted by M, over k, together with a ring of linear transformations A of M into itself subject to the following conditions:(i) A is a homomorphic image of the ring Sn = k[X1, …, Xn] of polynomials in n indeterminates X1, …, Xn for some value of n;(ii) M, considered as an A-module, is finitely generated.

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