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Remembering spatial words: Sensorimotor simulation affects verbal recognition memory.

Alper Kumcu¹, Robin L Thompson²

¹Department of Translation and Interpreting, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006)

|October 27, 2021

Summary

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Spatial associations influence verbal memory by guiding attention and interfering with perception. This study supports sensorimotor simulation and perceptual competition in memory retrieval.

Keywords:

Sensorimotor simulation compatibility effect conceptual cueing grounded-embodied cognition recognition memory spatial interference

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Linguistics

Background:

Words with spatial meanings are perceptually simulated, guiding attention.
Simulated representations can interfere with visual perception at associated locations.

Purpose of the Study:

Investigate spatial associations' effect on short-term verbal recognition memory.
Disambiguate between modal and amodal accounts of spatial interference.
Examine how spatial information impacts memory retrieval accuracy and speed.

Main Methods:

Two experiments encoding words in congruent and incongruent locations.
Experiment 1: Auditory probe with visual cue at retrieval (original or diagonal location).
Experiment 2: No retrieval cue, neutral encoding condition.

Main Results:

Spatial associations affected memory performance even when irrelevant.
Accuracy improved with congruent location cues if words were encoded non-canonically.
Highly imageable words showed slower retrieval with congruent cues.
Participants better remembered spatially congruent words without retrieval cues.

Conclusions:

Results support sensorimotor simulation in verbal memory.
Evidence provided for a perceptual competition account of spatial interference effects.