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Eye Movement Monitoring of Memory
Published on: August 15, 2010
Memory for moving and static images
W J Matthews1, Clare Benjamin, Claire Osborne
1Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, England. w.j.matthews@warwick.ac.uk
Abstract:
Despite the substantial interest in memory for complex pictorial stimuli, there has been virtually no research comparing memory for static scenes with that for their moving counterparts. We report that both monochrome and color moving images are better remembered than static versions of the same stimuli at retention intervals up to one month. When participants studied a sequence of still images, recognition performance was the same as that for single static images. These results are discussed within a theoretical framework which draws upon previous studies of scene memory, face recognition, and representational momentum.
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