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ERIC Number: EJ734787
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Jan
Pages: 12
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0278-7393
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Scene and Position Specificity in Visual Memory for Objects
Hollingworth, Andrew
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, v32 n1 p58-69 Jan 2006
This study investigated whether and how visual representations of individual objects are bound in memory to scene context. Participants viewed a series of naturalistic scenes, and memory for the visual form of a target object in each scene was examined in a 2-alternative forced-choice test, with the distractor object either a different object token or the target object rotated in depth. In Experiments 1 and 2, object memory performance was more accurate when the test object alternatives were displayed within the original scene than when they were displayed in isolation, demonstrating object-to-scene binding. Experiment 3 tested the hypothesis that episodic scene representations are formed through the binding of object representations to scene locations. Consistent with this hypothesis, memory performance was more accurate when the test alternatives were displayed within the scene at the same position originally occupied by the target than when they were displayed at a different position.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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