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The stability of individual differences in memory for location was assessed over a 1-week period. Subjects looked through a picture book and then relocated the pictures on the pages. This was repeated a week later with new pictures. The test-retest correlation was 0.60, indicating stable individual differences in this automatically processed task.
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This research was supported by Grant No. HD15558 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to the third author. This study was based on a master’s thesis submitted to the University of Alabama by the first author.
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O’dekirk, J.M., Wyatt, B.S. & Ellis, N.R. Individual differences in location memory. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 31, 66–68 (1993). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334143
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334143