The mind and spatial navigation. Brain-to-brain with Tracy Sánchez Pacheco. Special #8

Tracy Sánchez Pacheco is researching social facilitation in spatial navigation as a PhD student at the institute of Cognitive Science.

Not only Tracy’s research area is super interesting, also her methods are: She is using Virtual Reality to put her participants into an environment of which she and her colleagues can control almost all aspects.

Mentioned/recommended papers:

Dalton, R. C., Hölscher, C., & Montello, D. R. (2019). Wayfinding as a social activity. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 142. [Topic: the general relevance of social stimuli in spatial navigation]

Kuehn, E., Chen, X., Geise, P., Oltmer, J., & Wolbers, T. (2018). Social targets improve body-based and environment-based strategies during spatial navigation. Experimental Brain Research, 236, 755-764. [Topic: specific social facilitation]

Hao, Q. Y., Jiang, R., Hu, M. B., Jia, B., & Wu, Q. S. (2011). Pedestrian flow dynamics in a lattice gas model coupled with an evolutionary game. Physical Review E, 84(3), 036107. [Topic: real-world behavior of people on the streets]

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Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder