An exploration of the influence of animal and object categories on recall of item location following an incidental learning task

Clark, Daniel P. A. and Donnelly, Nick (2024) An exploration of the influence of animal and object categories on recall of item location following an incidental learning task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. ISSN 1747-0226

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Abstract

The current study explores the role of attention in location memory for animals and objects. Participants completed an incidental learning task where they either rated animals and objects with regards to either their ease of collection to win a scavenger hunt (Experiment 1a and b) or their distance from the centre of the computer screen (Experiment 2). The images of animals and objects were pseudo-randomly positioned on the screen in both experiments. After completing the incidental learning task (and a reverse counting distractor task), participants were then given a surprise location memory recall task. In the location memory recall task, items were shown in the centre of the screen and participants used the mouse to indicate the position the item had been shown during the incidental encoding task. The results of both experiments show location memory for objects was more accurate than for animals. While we cannot definitively identify the mechanism responsible for the difference in the location memory of objects and animals, we propose that differences in the influence of object-based attention at encoding affect location memory when tested at recall.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information and Comments:	This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article accepted for publication in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. The final, published version is available open access from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17470218241238737
Faculty / Department:	Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Psychology
Depositing User:	Dan Clark
Date Deposited:	28 Feb 2024 16:12
Last Modified:	03 Jun 2024 10:43
URI:	https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/4154

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