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Our study is an initial exploration of this hypothesis that, to begin with, involved healthy participants using a novel mobility device for sitting\n                    <jats:italic>and<\/jats:italic>\n                    standing locomotion. According to the situations, this device allows for transitioning from the sitting to the standing modality and vice versa. Additionally, we adopted a \u201cclassical\u201d methodology to investigate spatial representation. Participants [\n                    <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u202f=\u202f40] saw a scene of real objects (a book, a teapot, a football, etc.) arranged in a large room. Crucially, a half of them was using the device in the sitting modality, and the other half was in the standing modality. Afterwards, a spatial memory task investigated participants\u2019 spatial representation. More importantly, this task assessed whether the spatial representation was more egocentric (viewer-to-objects) or allocentric (objects-to-objects). Results showed that the standing group outperformed the sitting group [\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u202f&amp;lt;\u202f0.001] and possessed a markedly allocentric spatial representation [\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u202f&amp;lt;\u202f0.001], thus indicating that the standing group was better at grasping the spatial relations among objects. This set of results suggests that the higher viewpoint afforded by the standing modality provided more spatial information to the brain areas involved in spatial processing, thus resulting in a more robust spatial representation. 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