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Jesse Q. Sargent; Lauren L. Richmond; Devin M. Kellis; Maverick E. Smith; Jeffrey M. Zacks – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
Spatial memory is important for supporting the successful completion of everyday activities and is a particularly vulnerable domain in late life. Grouping items together in memory, or chunking, can improve spatial memory performance. In memory for desktop scale spaces and well-learned large-scale environments, error patterns suggest that…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Memory, Cognitive Processes, Aging (Individuals)
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Lei, Xuehui; Mou, Weimin – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
It is a prevailing theoretical claim that path integration is the primary means of developing global spatial representations. However, this claim is at odds with reported difficulty to develop global spatial representations of a multiscale environment using path integration. The current study tested a new hypothesis that locally similar but…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Memory
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Artyom Zinchenko; Markus Conci; Hermann J. Müller; Thomas Geyer – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
Visual search is faster when a fixed target location is paired with a spatially invariant (vs. randomly changing) distractor configuration, thus indicating that repeated contexts are learned, thereby guiding attention to the target (contextual cueing [CC]). Evidence for memory-guided attention has also been revealed with electrophysiological…
Descriptors: Cues, Memory, Attention, Visual Perception
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Annac, Efsun; Pointner, Mathias; Khader, Patrick H.; Müller, Hermann J.; Zang, Xuelian; Geyer, Thomas – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
Repeated encounter of abstract target-distractor letter arrangements leads to improved visual search for such displays. This contextual-cueing effect is attributed to incidental learning of display configurations. Whether observers can consciously access the memory underlying the cueing effect is still a controversial issue. The current study uses…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Cues, Context Effect, Memory
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Carrigan, Ann J.; Stoodley, Paul; Fernandez, Fernando; Sunday, Mackenzie A.; Wiggins, Mark W. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020
Echocardiographers are highly specialised, skilled practitioners who play a critical role in medical imaging diagnostics. Yet, little is known about the cognitive and perceptual attributes of experts within this domain. This study was designed to examine the role of individual differences in expertise. Specifically, the contribution of a domain…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Diagnostic Tests, Radiology, Visual Perception
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Castelhano, Monica S.; Fernandes, Suzette; Theriault, Jordan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
How are scene representations stored in memory? Researchers have often posited that scene representations have a hierarchical structure with background elements providing a scaffold for more detailed foreground elements. To further investigate scene representation and the role of background and foreground information, we introduced a new stimulus…
Descriptors: Memory, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli, Context Effect
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Tummeltshammer, Kristen; Amso, Dima – Developmental Science, 2018
The visual context in which an object or face resides can provide useful top-down information for guiding attention orienting, object recognition, and visual search. Although infants have demonstrated sensitivity to covariation in spatial arrays, it is presently unclear whether they can use rapidly acquired contextual knowledge to guide attention…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Attention, Infants, Eye Movements
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Pattamadilok, Chotiga; Welby, Pauline; Tyler, Michael D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
Auditory speech appears to be linked to visual articulatory gestures and orthography through different mechanisms. Yet, both types of visual information have a strong influence on speech processing. The present study directly compared their contributions to speech processing using a novel word learning paradigm. Native speakers of French, who were…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Speech Communication, Nonverbal Communication, French
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Barr, Rachel; Rusnak, Sylvia N.; Brito, Natalie H.; Nugent, Courtney – Developmental Science, 2020
Bilingual infants from 6- to 24-months of age are more likely to generalize, flexibly reproducing actions on novel objects significantly more often than age-matched monolingual infants are. In the current study, we examine whether the addition of novel verbal labels enhances memory generalization in a perceptually complex imitation task. We…
Descriptors: Infants, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis
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Pertzov, Yoni; Manohar, Sanjay; Husain, Masud – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
Working memory is now established as a fundamental cognitive process across a range of species. Loss of information held in working memory has the potential to disrupt many aspects of cognitive function. However, despite its significance, the mechanisms underlying rapid forgetting remain unclear, with intense recent debate as to whether it is…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Competition, Visual Perception, Fidelity
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Kelly, Laura Jane; Heit, Evan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
How does the concurrent use of language affect perception and memory for exemplars? Labels cue more general category information than a specific exemplar. Applying labels can affect the resulting memory for an exemplar. Here 3 alternative hypotheses are proposed for the role of labeling an exemplar at encoding: (a) labels distort memory toward the…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Memory, Cues, Hypothesis Testing
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Barr, Rachel; Walker, Joanne; Gross, Julien; Hayne, Harlene – Child Development, 2014
The concept of spreading activation describes how retrieval of one memory cues retrieval of other memories that are associated with it. This study explored spreading activation in 6-, 12-, and 18-month-old infants. Infants (n = 144) learned two tasks within the same experimental session; one task, deferred imitation (DI), is typically remembered…
Descriptors: Infants, Age Differences, Memory, Cues
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Besken, Miri – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
The perceptual fluency hypothesis claims that items that are easy to perceive at encoding induce an illusion that they will be easier to remember, despite the finding that perception does not generally affect recall. The current set of studies tested the predictions of the perceptual fluency hypothesis with a picture generation manipulation.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Memory, Prediction, Recall (Psychology)
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Mou, Weimin; Wang, Lin – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Three experiments investigated whether navigation is less efficient across boundaries than within boundaries. In an immersive virtual environment, participants learned objects' locations in a large room or a small room. Participants then pointed to the objects' original locations after physically walking a circuitous path without vision.…
Descriptors: Navigation, Spatial Ability, Memory, Virtual Classrooms
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Thomson, David R.; Milliken, Bruce – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
Maljkovic and Nakayama have demonstrated memory influences in singleton search from one trial to the next, an effect they termed "priming of pop-out" (PoP). This effect was described as resulting from the persistence of an implicit memory trace, the influence of which could be observed for around 5-8 subsequent trials. Thomson and…
Descriptors: Priming, Memory, Visual Perception, Context Effect
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