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ERIC Number: EJ689489
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-May
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-0278-7393
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Transitional Information in Spatial Serial Memory: Path Characteristics Affect Recall Performance
Parmentier, Fabrice B. R.; Elford, Greg; Mayberry, Murray
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, v31 n3 p412-427 May 2005
This study examined the role of stimulus characteristics in a visuospatial order reconstruction task in which participants were required to recall the order of sequences of spatial locations. The complexity of the to-be-remembered sequences, as measured by path crossing, path length, and angles, was found to affect serial memory, in terms of both recall accuracy and response times. The results demonstrate that not all sequences are remembered equally and that spatial characteristics of the sequences constitute an important variable in the understanding of visuospatial serial memory. More important, the data suggest that spatial path represents transitional information and that, as is the case in verbal serial memory, transitional information is of critical importance in serial memory.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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