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Determinants of spatial priming in environmental memory.

R C Sherman1, K M Lim

  • 1Department of Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056.

Memory & Cognition
|May 1, 1991
PubMed
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This study investigated spatial priming in environmental memory. Results suggest spatial memory exists, but object recognition doesn't always activate spatial relations.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Environmental Psychology

Background:

  • Spatial priming in object recognition suggests spatial organization of environmental memory.
  • Previous studies confound spatial proximity with temporal contiguity during learning.
  • The role of temporal associations versus spatial relations in priming remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine if spatial priming in object recognition relies on encoded spatial relations or temporal associations.
  • To disentangle spatial and temporal contiguity in environmental learning.
  • To investigate the relationship between environmental memory, spatial organization, and object recognition.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a trip trial learning method to independently manipulate temporal contiguity and spatial relations.
  • Compared trip trial learning with a free study procedure.
  • Conducted four experiments manipulating learning conditions and employing recognition and location-decision tasks.

Main Results:

  • Spatial priming was absent when spatial and temporal contiguity were independent (trip trial method).
  • Spatial priming occurred only with the free study procedure, not the trip trial method, despite equivalent encoding accuracy.
  • Spatial priming was re-obtained when temporal and spatial contiguity were confounded.
  • Spatial priming was observed in a location-decision task using the trip trial method.

Conclusions:

  • Environmental memory may be spatially organized.
  • Retrieval of object identities does not necessarily activate encoded spatial relations.
  • Prior evidence for spatial priming may be influenced by temporal associations rather than purely spatial encoding.

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