Boundaries Extend and Contract in Scene Memory Depending on Image Properties

Bainbridge, Wilma A.; Baker, Chris I.

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.12.004

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“…In the first experiment, we tested for memory errors for scene views taken from an objectto-scene continuum, using the same paradigm as Bainbridge and Baker (2020a).…”

Section: Memory Errors Along An Object-scene Continuummentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Experimental Design. The experiment paradigm followed the procedures from Bainbridge & Baker (2020a). Each trial started with a central fixation cross for 1 sec.…”

Section: Stimulimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This question is particularly important in light of recent controversies surrounding the boundary extension phenomenon and how to account for evidence of memory errors in the opposite direction (Bainbridge & Baker, 2020a, 2020bIntraub, 2020). In particular, initial studies showed only extension errors for close-up views (e.g., Intraub & Richardson, 1989); when subsequent studies with different stimuli revealed cases of boundary contraction, these were explained by invoking an additional mechanism of normalization to the mean of the stimulus set (e.g., the two-process extension-normalization model, Intraub et al, 1996).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, recently Bainbridge & Baker (2020a) have challenged this position. They probed scene memory errors across a substantial sampling of natural images, and found clear evidence for both boundary extension and contraction (Bainbridge & Baker, 2020a), even in paradigms that are not thought to induce normalization (Bainbridge & Baker 2020b). They suggest that these bidirectional memory errors do not necessarily require distinct mechanisms.…”

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Systematic transition from boundary extension to contraction along an object-to-scene continuum

Park¹,

Josephs²,

Konkle³

2021

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After viewing a picture of an environment, our memory of it typically extends beyond what was presented—a phenomenon called boundary extension. But sometimes, memory errors show the opposite pattern—boundary contraction—and the relationship between these phenomena is controversial. We constructed virtual 3D environments, and created a series of views at different distances, from object close-ups to wide-angle indoor views, and tested for memory errors along this object-to-scene continuum. Boundary extension was evident for close-scale views, and transitioned parametrically to boundary contraction for far-scale views. However, this transition point was not tied to a specific position in the environment; instead, it tracked with judgments of the best looking view. We propose that boundary extension and contraction are in fact integrated phenomena, and we offer an account where competition between object-based and scene-based affordances determine whether a view will extend or contract in memory.

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“…In the first experiment, we tested for memory errors for scene views taken from an objectto-scene continuum, using the same paradigm as Bainbridge and Baker (2020a).…”

Section: Memory Errors Along An Object-scene Continuummentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Experimental Design. The experiment paradigm followed the procedures from Bainbridge & Baker (2020a). Each trial started with a central fixation cross for 1 sec.…”

Section: Stimulimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Systematic transition from boundary extension to contraction along an object-to-scene continuum

Park¹,

Josephs²,

Konkle³

2021

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“…For example, boundary extension is phenomena where observers remember scenes with wider boundaries (i.e., more zoomed out) than what was originally experienced (Intraub and Richardson, 1989). The boundary extension phenomenon is held to be a specific to scene memory (for alternative account, see Bainbridge and Baker, 2020). Here, on the basis of the assumed differences between the window and picture frame contexts, we hypothesized a larger boundary extension effect for scenes presented in windows than for scenes presented in picture frames.…”

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Functional Context Affects Scene Processing

Aminoff

Tarr

2020

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Rapid visual perception is often viewed as a bottom-up process. Category-preferred neural regions are often characterized as automatic, default processing mechanisms for visual inputs of their categorical preference. To explore the sensitivity of such regions to top-down information, we examined three scene-preferring brain regions, the occipital place area (OPA), the parahippocampal place area (PPA), and the retrosplenial complex (RSC), and tested whether the processing of outdoor scenes is influenced by the functional contexts in which they are seen. Context was manipulated by presenting real-world landscape images as if being viewed through a window or within a picture frame; manipulations that do not affect scene content but do affect one's functional knowledge regarding the scene. This manipulation influences neural scene processing (as measured by fMRI): the OPA and PPA exhibited greater neural activity when participants viewed images as if through a window as compared to within a picture frame, while the RSC did not show this difference. In a separate behavioral experiment, functional context affected scene memory in predictable directions (boundary extension). Our interpretation is that the window context denotes three-dimensionality, therefore rendering the perceptual experience of viewing landscapes as more realistic. Conversely, the frame context denotes a two-dimensional image. As such, more spatially-biased scene representations in the OPA and the PPA are influenced by differences in top-down, perceptual expectations generated from context. In contrast, more semantically-biased scene representations in the RSC are likely to be less affected by top-down signals that carry information about the physical layout of a scene.

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What about “space” is important for episodic memory?

Fan

Sokolowski

Rosenbaum

et al. 2023

WIRES Cognitive Science

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Early cognitive neuroscientific research revealed that the hippocampus is crucial for spatial navigation in rodents, and for autobiographical episodic memory in humans. Researchers quickly linked these streams to propose that the human hippocampus supports memory through its role in representing space, and research on the link between spatial cognition and episodic memory in humans has proliferated over the past several decades. Different researchers apply the term "spatial" in a variety of contexts, however, and it remains unclear what aspect of space may be critical to memory. Similarly, "episodic" has been defined and tested in different ways. Naturalistic assessment of spatial memory and episodic memory (i.e., episodic autobiographical memory) is required to unify the scale and biological relevance in comparisons of spatial and mnemonic processing. Limitations regarding the translation of rodent to human research, human ontogeny, and inter-individual variability require greater consideration in the interpretation of this literature. In this review, we outline the aspects of space that are (and are not) commonly linked to episodic memory, and then we discuss these dimensions through the lens of individual differences in naturalistic autobiographical memory. Future studies should carefully consider which aspect(s) of space are being linked to memory within the context of naturalistic human cognition.

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Boundaries Extend and Contract in Scene Memory Depending on Image Properties

Cited by 46 publications

References 29 publications

Systematic transition from boundary extension to contraction along an object-to-scene continuum

Systematic transition from boundary extension to contraction along an object-to-scene continuum

Functional Context Affects Scene Processing

What about “space” is important for episodic memory?

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