Abstract
Relationship between spatial working memory (SWM) ability and the distortion of cognitive distance from memorized maps was investigated. In the experiment, SWM ability of the participants was assessed by the Corsi Block Test. Then they estimated distances between pairs of points on a memorized map. The number of intervening points between the two points varied from 0 to 2. The distance estimate increased with the number of intervening points independently of SWM ability. This result was the contrast to a prior research which demonstrated that the estimate of participants with high visual working memory (VWM) ability did not showed effect of intervening points, while the estimates of participants with low VWM ability showed. These results were discussed in the point that VWM more strongly related to the distance estimates that was visually memorized than SWM.
