Abstract
Two experiments were conducted to examine the effects of orientation specificity in spatial memory and body orientation on directional judgments. In Experiment 1, 27 undergraduates were asked to make judgments concerning relative directions on their campus. They were asked to imagine being at one campus location, facing in a particular direction, and to judge the direction of an unseen target with respect to the imagined position. In Experiment 2, 28 undergraduates were asked to make judgments concerning a path within room. The results indicate that judgments were fastest when the imagined directions were aligned with both preterred orientation of long-term spatial memory and body orientation and were slower when any of these directions were out of alignment.
