{"pk":26377,"title":"Spatial Memory and Foraging: How Perfect Spatial Memory Improves Foraging\nPerformance","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Foraging is a search process common to all mobile organisms.\nSpatial memory can improve foraging efficiency and efficacy,\nand evidence indicates that many species—including\nhumans—actively utilize spatial memory to aid in their\nforaging, yet most current models of foraging do not include\nspatial memory. In this study, a simple online foraging game\nwas used to attempt to replicate and extend findings from a\nrecent study (Kerster, Rhodes, & Kello, 2016) to further\ninvestigate the role of spatial memory in foraging. The game\ninvolved searching a simple 2d space by clicking the mouse\nto try and find as many resources as possible in 300 clicks.\nSpatial information was displayed that provided complete\ninformation about search history in order test how “perfect”\nspatial memory improves search performance. Over 1000\nparticipants were recruited to participate in the task using\nAmazon’s Mechanical Turk, which allowed this test to be\nperformed across a wide parameter space of different resource\ndistributions. Results replicated many of the findings of\nearlier studies, and demonstrated that spatial memory can\nhave a dramatic effect on search performance.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Foraging; spatial memory; Lévy walks; area\nrestricted search; crowdsourcing"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/29m0w1nn","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Bryan","middle_name":"Elvis","last_name":"Kerster","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Merced","department":""},{"first_name":"Christopher","middle_name":"T.","last_name":"Kello","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Merced","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26377/galley/16013/download/"}]}