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How we navigate through doors, not into walls


Claire.

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Study demonstrates how humans navigate through doorways and not into walls

You walk into a wedding reception at a hotel. To your left, you see the entrance to the ballroom. To the right, there's an enormous painting of an evergreen forest. Behind you is the exit to the hotel lobby. But without stopping to think, you walk through the door straight ahead, into the event's open bar. Researchers know that there is no cognitive load for navigating new spaces—the human visual system instantly determines the navigational possibilities. But given all the spatial information presented by a new environment, how does the brain know it can walk through the door to the bar, but that it cannot navigate through the painting?

Read more: MedicalXpress

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