Yavuz, Emre;
Manley, Ed;
Gahnstrom, Christoffer J;
Goodroe, Sarah;
Coutrot, Antoine;
Hornberger, Michael;
Spiers, Hugo;
(2024)
Individuals learning to drive solo before age 18 have superior spatial navigation ability compared with those who learn later.
Spatial Cognition & Computation
10.1080/13875868.2024.2319735.
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Abstract
A challenge associated with driving vehicles can be navigating to destinations. While driving experience would seem beneficial for improving navigation skill, it remains unclear how driving experience relates to wayfinding ability. Using the mobile video game-based wayfinding task Sea Hero Quest, which is predictive of real-world navigation, we measured wayfinding ability in US-based participants (n = 694, mean age = 26.8 years). We also asked travel-related self-report questions, including those relating to driving experience. A multiple linear regression model found that those who started driving solo below aged 18 had significantly better wayfinding ability than those starting to drive solo aged 18 and above.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Individuals learning to drive solo before age 18 have superior spatial navigation ability compared with those who learn later |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13875868.2024.2319735 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13875868.2024.2319735 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Experimental Psychology; Wayfinding; Mobile apps; Digital Assessment; Human Spatial Navigation; Lifestyle factors |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Experimental Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10188412 |
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