ISSN 1671-3710
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主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

心理科学进展 ›› 2025, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (4): 673-679.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1042.2025.0673 cstr: 32111.14.2025.0673

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视觉线索受限环境导航中认知地图的动态加工机制

黄雷1, 张军恒1, 姬鸣1,2()   

  1. 1陕西师范大学心理学院
    2陕西省行为与认知神经科学重点实验室, 西安 710062
  • 收稿日期:2024-04-08 出版日期:2025-04-15 发布日期:2025-03-05
  • 通讯作者: 姬鸣, E-mail: jiming@snnu.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:
    高等学校学科创新引智基地(B25068)

Dynamic processing mechanisms of cognitive maps in navigation in visually cue-restricted environments

HUANG Lei1, ZHANG Junheng1, JI Ming1,2()   

  1. 1School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University
    2Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Behavior and Cognitive Neuroscience, Xi’an 710062, China
  • Received:2024-04-08 Online:2025-04-15 Published:2025-03-05

摘要:

视觉线索受限环境中, 视觉线索模糊和视野狭窄等因素会降低个体导航效能。认知地图凭借其灵活性和预览性的特点为导航提供支持, 保证导航过程的连续性和准确性。研究分析了认知地图的构成要素及相关理论基础, 提出了认知地图的构建和更新−校正两阶段动态加工机制及其对视觉线索受限环境中空间导航行为的影响。在构建阶段, 个体通过多感官通道获取并整合空间信息形成认知地图; 在更新−校正阶段, 个体更新并校正空间心智模型和空间定向以实现空间导航, 并全程受到元认知监控的调节。认知地图的动态加工机制厘清了推理、语言、元认知等认知加工过程如何支持视觉线索受限等环境中的空间导航行为, 为未来探索空间导航能力训练、人机协同导航智能化等方面提供理论基础。

关键词: 视觉线索受限环境, 空间导航, 认知地图, 更新−校正阶段加工

Abstract:

Spatial navigation, as a complex cognitive behavior involving human-environment interaction, depends on the support of cognitive maps. Current research on spatial navigation primarily focuses on vision-dominated terrestrial environments. However, with the growing exploration of aerial, space, and maritime domains, the demands on individuals’ spatial cognitive abilities and navigation strategies are evolving. Compared to conventional ground-based navigation environments, these domains typically offer fewer effective visual cues. This study defines such conditions as visually cue-restricted environments, encompassing aerial and space environments, as well as dark settings, low-light conditions, and visually obstructed environments (e.g., dense fog).

In visually cue-restricted environments, individuals face significant navigation challenges due to blurred visual attributes and a limited field of view. These difficulties are particularly pronounced in professional contexts, such as those encountered by pilots and astronauts. For example, during high-altitude flights, the scarcity of effective visual cues, the effects of inertia, the limitations of bodily movement information, and the low visibility of nighttime conditions collectively reduce navigation efficiency. These factors place higher demands on pilots' spatial cognitive abilities, particularly in constructing cognitive maps. This study aims to investigate how the dynamic processing mechanisms of cognitive maps support spatial navigation, ultimately seeking to enhance individuals' adaptability to visually cue-restricted environments.

This study summarizes the environmental and cognitive elements included in cognitive maps from the perspective of human-environment interaction. Based on existing research categorizing spatial environment knowledge, key elements from the perspective of route knowledge include visual elements of landmarks, semantic features, and effectiveness. From orientation knowledge perspective, the critical components involve landmark visibility, spatial axes, spatial boundaries, and turns or intersections. Additionally, from the cognitive processing perspective of individuals, cognitive maps may also incorporate event elements, representing the states of individuals at different times and places, which are closely tied to episodic memory. These elements in cognitive maps do not exist independently but are interrelated, collectively influencing the spatial navigation process. Elements in cognitive maps are organized in forms such as Euclidean space, cognitive graphs, and schemas.

Building on this foundation, this study proposes a two-stage dynamic processing mechanism for cognitive maps in navigation within visually cue-restricted environments: the construction stage and the updating-correction stage. During the construction stage, individuals gather environmental information through multiple sensory channels and integrate these elements into a cognitive map. In the updating-correction stage, individuals abstract spatial mental models from the cognitive map based on environmental features and navigation goals. They perform reasoning and decision-making to plan routes, achieving spatial orientation through multisensory integration. As navigation progresses, individuals dynamically update and correct the cognitive map with environmental information to support navigation in visually cue-restricted environments, a process that is further regulated by metacognitive monitoring. This dynamic processing mechanism plays a unique role in navigation under visually restricted conditions.

By elucidating the dynamic processing mechanisms of cognitive maps under visually cue-restricted conditions, this study provides theoretical insights into changes in individuals’ spatial navigation behaviors across complex environments. It also broadens future research directions in applications such as human-computer collaborative navigation systems and spatial navigation training.

Key words: navigation in visually cue−restricted environments, spatial navigation, cognitive map, dynamic processing mechanism

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