Spatial recall improved by retrieval enactment

Jones, Gregory V.; Martin, Maryanne

doi:10.3758/pbr.16.3.524

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“…Throughout the literature, other positive motor effects have been interpreted as the result of the integration of different representational codes. Jones and Martin (2009), for instance, reported that the long-term recall of spatial arrays of letters and numbers, incidentally learned through text messaging or calculator use, was improved by motor enactment at the time of retrieval (relative to retrieval without movement) and concluded that appropriate movement during the test phase recruits egocentric representations that supplement allocentric representations subserving spatial recall. Likewise, the enactment effect—that is, the finding that lists of action phrases such as “turn the key” are better remembered when participants read the phrases and perform the actions than when they only read the phrases (Engelkamp, 1998)—has been explained in the context of a multisystem account, whereby conceptual information is enriched by sensory and motor information during encoding and retrieval (Engelkamp & Jahn, 2003).…”

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Pointing towards visuospatial patterns in short-term memory: Differential effects on familiarity- and recollection-based judgments.

Rossi-Arnaud¹,

Spataro²,

Marques³

et al. 2015

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne

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Previous studies have indicated that pointing toward to-be-remembered visuospatial patterns enhances short-term memory (STM) when the presentation of pointing and no-pointing trials is mixed (Chum et al., 2007; Dodd & Shumborski, 2009; Rossi-Arnaud et al., 2012). By contrast, when presentation is blocked, pointing has inhibitory effects on memory (Dodd & Shumborski, 2009; Rossi-Arnaud et al., 2012). In the present study, we demonstrated that pointing has different effects on short-term recollection- and familiarity-based judgments, depending on the length of the visuospatial patterns (5- vs. 7-item arrays) and the interval between the encoding and test phases (2 vs. 5 s). More specifically, pointing decreased the accuracy of recollection-based judgments for 5-item arrays, but not for 7-item arrays (this negative effect did not interact with interval length). In contrast, pointing facilitated familiarity-based judgments when the interval between the study and test phases was 5 s, but not when it was 2 s (this positive effect did not interact with pattern length). We proposed that the negative effects might be accounted for by the simultaneous recruitment of attention resources in the planning and execution of pointing movements. As a consequence, executive resources are diverted from the primary memory task, resulting in a less efficient use of attention-demanding retrieval strategies, like chunking. By contrast, the positive effects on familiarity judgments might reflect the unitization of the to-be-remembered items into a single shape.

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Pointing towards visuospatial patterns in short-term memory: Differential effects on familiarity- and recollection-based judgments.

Rossi-Arnaud¹,

Spataro²,

Marques³

et al. 2015

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne

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“…Nevertheless, several studies have shown the importance of timing for motor sequence learning: Variations in timing between repetitions of a sequence disrupt learning of that sequence, suggesting that relative timing is integrated into the action representation of a sequence (e.g., Shin & Ivry, 2002;Tubau et al, 2007). More generally, memory has been suggested to be the reenactment of presented events (Jones & Martin, 2009;Kent & Lamberts, 2008), which presumably includes information about the timing of those events. These alternative perspectives on cognition are of interest, but need further detailed specification in order to be rigorously compared with existing models of serial recall.…”

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Relations between timing, position, and grouping in short-term memory

2010

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This article is concerned with how information about time and position in a sequence is represented in short-term memory and expressed in the dynamics of serial recall. Temporal-distinctiveness theories of memory predict that isolating a list item in time will improve recall accuracy for that item. Although the majority of research in shortterm memory has failed to demonstrate a temporal isolation effect (TIE), there are occasions on which a TIE is observed. The disparity in results has been explained by assuming that participants can adaptively weight temporal and nontemporal information at retrieval, with differences between experiments promoting or discouraging reliance on time as a source of episodic information. A particular focus of the present study is the finding that the TIE is substantially observed in standard serial recall only when participants are instructed to group the list into minisequences. The findings of two experiments using instructed grouping replicated this effect but showed that it is attributable to a longer gap at the group boundary enhancing the positive effect of grouping on recall accuracy. These results show that the hierarchical representations usually associated with temporal grouping are also elicited by instructed grouping but that an additional and nonspecific benefit to recall obtains from lengthening the pause between groups. An additional role for time is identified in the timing of responses: The dynamics of input sequences tend to be mirrored in output sequences for ungrouped lists, whereas the primacy pattern in grouped lists is for a longer duration to speed access to the following group when that duration occurs at an instructed group boundary.

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“…Their results are in line with the embodied cognition framework (Barsalou, 1999), which suggests that cognition arises from the interaction between perception and action. This article inspired other researchers to further examine the interaction between perception and action in spatial memory (Dodd & Shumbroski, 2009;Jones & Martin, 2009;Rossi-Arnaud, Spataro, & Longobardi, 2012).…”

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