ABSTRACT
This chapter examines whether training specificity applies to all aspects of the navigation task. It classifies response type as involving a purely motoric dimension, wordiness as involving a cognitive dimension, presentation mode and display type as involving purely perceptual dimensions, and size of the grids and presence of landmarks as representing combinations of motoric, cognitive, and perceptual dimensions. This classification is somewhat arbitrary for the cognitive dimension. It explores another purely perceptual dimension of the navigation task by examining training with different types of displays. The investigation of landmarks implies that simulator training that introduces new task features might be useful for the development of new task representations that could be more effective than the default representations used when those new features are not available. The findings are consistent by and large with the procedural reinstatement principle, and indicates that the relevant procedures causing specificity in the navigation task are cognitive and perceptual, rather than motoric.
