Abstract
In two experiments, we examined whether the presence of stable visual information and the confluence of the viewpoints would cause participants to integrate in a single memory representation spatial locations they encoded at different points in time. Participants studied from the same or from different viewpoints two layouts of objects within a common visually cluttered room. Then, they carried out a series of pointing trials that involved objects from either the same or different layouts. Results showed that participants were faster for within- than between-layout judgments when they had studied the two layouts from different viewpoints but were equally fast across the two types of judgment after studying the layouts from the same viewpoint (Experiment 1). This finding suggests that they integrated locations into a single representation only when encoding the layouts from the same viewpoint. However, when participants’ memory for the layout studied first was refreshed prior to testing (Experiment 2), no difference in response time was found, suggesting that they had integrated all locations in a single representation before the beginning of testing.
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t (26) = 1.83, p = .08 (M = 13.53, SD = 4.54 for the layout studied first, M = 10.74, SD = 3.44 for the layout studied second).
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Pantelides, S.N., Avraamides, M.N. Integrating visuospatial information across distinct experiences. Cogn Process 20, 349–358 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-019-00909-y
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