Recognition memory and the recall of spatial location
- 1 September 1973
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Memory & Cognition
- Vol. 1 (3) , 256-260
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03198106
Abstract
It is argued that memory for events should depend on the ability to recall their attributes. Two experiments suggest that this is so for the attribute of spatial location. When words presented in spatial arrays were later re-presented in a joint test of recognition memory and location recall, it was found that the surer one’s recognition, the greater the accuracy of location recall. Instructions to attend to a word’s location resulted in poorer recognition memory and marginally poorer location recall than were obtained when location was “incidentally” learned. Finally, when words were presented in color as well as in space, recognition memory was best when both attributes were recalled, was better when only location, was recalled than when only color was recalled, and was poorest when neither attribute was recalled.Keywords
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