Clark, Daniel P. A. and Dunn, Andrew K. and Baguley, Thom (2013) Testing the exclusivity effect in location memory. Memory, 21 (4). pp. 512-523. ISSN 1464-0686
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Abstract
There is growing literature exploring the possibility of parallel retrieval of location memories, although this literature focuses primarily on the speed of retrieval with little attention to the accuracy of location memory recall. Baguley, Lansdale, Lines, and Parkin (2006) found that when a person has two or more memories for an object's location, their recall accuracy suggests that only one representation can be retrieved at a time (exclusivity). This finding is counterintuitive given evidence of non-exclusive recall in the wider memory literature. The current experiment explored the exclusivity effect further and aimed to promote an alternative outcome (i.e., independence or superadditivity) by encouraging the participants to combine multiple representations of space at encoding or retrieval. This was encouraged by using anchor (points of reference) labels that could be combined to form a single strongly associated combination. It was hypothesised that the ability to combine the anchor labels would allow the two representations to be retrieved concurrently, generating higher levels of recall accuracy. The results demonstrate further support for the exclusivity hypothesis, showing no significant improvement in recall accuracy when there are multiple representations of a target object's location as compared to a single representation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article submitted for consideration in "Memory" [copyright Taylor & Francis]; [Memory] is available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/[Article DOI] 10.1080/09658211.2012.744421." |
| Keywords: | Memory for object location, Location memory, Exclusivity |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Users 3 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2013 10:48 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Mar 2014 17:45 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/217 |
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