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What does this task involve?
You move through a network of nodes to reach targets, exercising route planning and spatial working memory as you track your position and plan ahead.
What skills does it draw on?
Planning, spatial navigation, and rule keeping — behavioral relatives of the wayfinding and Tower-of-London planning literatures.
What should good performance look like?
Shorter, more direct routes with fewer revisits indicate efficient planning; occasional detours are normal while you learn the map.
Is navigation here like real navigation?
It shares planning and memory components but lacks landmarks and body-based cues, so treat it as a planning exercise rather than a navigation aptitude test.
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References
- Karuza, E. A., Kahn, A. E., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Bassett, D. S. (2017). Process reveals structure: How a network is traversed mediates expectations about its architecture. Scientific Reports, 7, 12733. 10.1038/s41598-017-12876-5
- Sochat, V. V., Eisenberg, I. W., Enkavi, A. Z., Li, J., Bissett, P. G., & Poldrack, R. A. (2016). The Experiment Factory: Standardizing behavioral experiments. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 610. 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00610
- Schapiro, A. C., Rogers, T. T., Cordova, N. I., Turk-Browne, N. B., & Botvinick, M. M. (2013). Neural representations of events arise from temporal community structure. Nature Neuroscience, 16(4), 486-492. 10.1038/nn.3331
About This Experiment
This experiment is an educational adaptation for demonstration purposes. It is not a clinical diagnostic tool. Results reflect your performance in this specific session and should not be interpreted as an assessment of your cognitive abilities.
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