{"pk":29131,"title":"Task Characteristics and Individual Differences in Judgments of RelativeDirection","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Judgments of relative direction (JRD) have been frequently used to understand peoples mental representation of outdoorand indoor spaces. In JRD experiments, experimenters need to identify a signal within the trial-by-trial and participant-by-participant variability. However, it is not well understood how characteristics of the task and differences betweenindividuals contributes to performance variability. In this paper, I investigated task characteristics (i.e., reference framesused in instructions, orienting and target headings, and distances between headings) and individual differences (i.e., gen-der, sense-of-direction, familiarity, and strategy use) to provide insights into the factors that influence JRD accuracy andvariability. Using the findings of this study, I make recommendations for best-practices in JRD methods and analyses.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1762h8j2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Heather","middle_name":"","last_name":"Burte","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Texas at Arlington","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29131/galley/19002/download/"}]}