Abstract
To examine personal differences of the use of spatial cues in navigation, we carried out several tests after the presentation of a route movie in a virtual environment. The test asked the landmark and scene memory, the sequential knowledge, and the spatial direction of the presented route. Subjects were divided into two groups based on the score of a subjective spatial ability questionnaire. The results showed the performance in scene recognition was higher in the higher subjective spatial ability group than the lower group. There was no difference in the performance of the tasks that asked the sequential knowledge and the spatial direction between the groups. These results suggest that a person who has high self-rating in spatial abilities shows higher sensitivity to a scene surrounding a landmark whereas there is no difference in the ability related to the spatial mapping.
