do you get lost easily?

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I found an interesting study testing people on a bunch of cognitive skills related to navigation.

Website here.

My scores:

Object Recognition - 100%
Identity Recognition - 50%
Expression Recognition - 100%
Landmark Recognition - 90%
Heading Orientation - 80%
Sequence Matching - 100%
Path Integration - 30%
Cognitive Map Test V1 completed in 9 trials
Cognitive Map Test V1 part 2 - 40%

How do others score on this?

I don't have to do a test to know that I get lost easily.
I have no sence of direction whatsoever. I still get lost in my own town in buildings, everywhere. Even if I have been to a certain place ten times before I still manage to get lost. Asking the way does not help either because I tend to forget the directions someone gives me as soon as I hear them.
Hopeless!

Last edited by pokerface on 21 Jan 2013, 3:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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This describes me quite well

Yes I sometimes seem to get lost very easily and when exiting a room or office that I am not familiar with I get confused on which to turn to leave the way I entered the room or office. Sometimes when using a GPS to get somewhere I may go the wrong way or assume the GPS wants me to go a certain way and then I am lost or running late to where I am going. I have found that when I go to a new place or store I must use landmarks as well as GPS to successfully navigate my way around the new place or new town. When I travel with friends to another country for example, I usually go with what my friend suggests and let him or her do the navigating to the tourist areas we want to see.

YES!

I hate driving to new places without a GPS. I REALLY hate driving downtown in any major cities. There's just too much stuff going on around me to concentrate on where I need to go unless I have a GPS that gives verbal directions.

Usually, once I've been somewhere a couple times (except in cities), I can easily find my way back to it.

I absolutely get lost all the time. I would really love to hear from AS people who DO have a good sense of direction. Do they exist?

I get lost very easily.

Me too.

I got lost in my high school. It was big but not big enough to be that confusing, yet to me it was. I have been at a meeting in a building near the main street, and once I got out, I was unable to find the main street and went back and forth on a desperate hunt for the correct street several times. I was completely unable to understand anything of the map I was supposed to use when we had Orienteering in PE, and due to my compete lack of sense of direction, I didn't dare venture into the woods happy go lucky. (I hid near the meeting place and joined the last groups as they came).
I have no sense of direction. When I was 14 I managed to ask my grandfather (we were in a subway station) which direction the subway would come from. He was not impressed.
My lack of direction and my innate fear of getting lost has made every school trip a nightmare for me.

Last edited by Skilpadde on 21 Jan 2013, 2:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I think I have a decent sense of navigation for the most part, though I'm better navigating outdoors than I am indoors, and I rarely venture to new places without studying the area on a map first. If anything causes me problems when it comes to navigation, it's the fact that I have a hard time with verbal directions. Will be interesting to see how I do in this test...

Side note: This thread reminds me of how I would freak out if we got lost when I was a kid. I also felt like I needed to have a map with me whenever we went on a long car trip, just in case.

Last edited by FishStickNick on 21 Jan 2013, 2:53 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Be warned, this is a long test. Interesting but long.

My computer started doing something with virus scan during and after path integration so the videos would get stuck intermittently then jump ahead but here are my results.

Object Recognition 100% Correct
Identity Recognition 70% Correct
Expression Recognition 60% Correct
Landmark Recognition 100% Correct
Heading Orientation 100% Correct
Sequence Matching 100% Correct
Path Integration 70% Correct
Cognitive Map Test V1 completed in 9 trials
Cognitive Map Test V1 part 2 70% Correct

I have traveled all over the world and have never in my life used or felt the need to use a GPS device.

I don't think I ever get lost. I love maps, love studying them and planning trips.

Object Recognition 100% Correct
Identity Recognition 80% Correct
Expression Recognition 90% Correct
Landmark Recognition 100% Correct
Heading Orientation 90% Correct
Sequence Matching 100% Correct
Path Integration 50% Correct
Cognitive Map Test V1 completed in 9 trials
Cognitive Map Test V1 part 2 50% Correct

yes, i was in someone's house and when walking out couldnt find the door... at a job interview, the woman told me over the phone that it's very easy to find the place, and i knew i'd get lost anyway, and i did. i always get lost.

This sounds exactly like me.

Oh yes. It happens a lot actually, even in familiar places sometimes. It's embarrassing. I have to ask for directions at least five times per trip!

Holds for me what Pokerface says.
In a megastore where I go everyday since the last eleven years and which has two floors I can't say which part of the second floor corresponds to the first floor.
Great ordeal to get out of a city when driving.