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Handedness dependency in recall from everyday memory

G V Jones1, M Martin

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

British Journal of Psychology (London, England : 1953)
|January 7, 1998
PubMed
Summary

People often misremember the Queen's coin orientation. This study found handedness impacts memory accuracy, with right-handed individuals showing significantly worse recall than left-handed individuals for coin details.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Human Memory

Background:

  • Systematic memory errors regarding the orientation of the Queen's head on British coins are well-documented.
  • Previous research has not extensively explored the influence of individual differences, such as handedness, on this specific memory phenomenon.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effect of handedness on the misremembering of the Queen's head orientation on British coins.
  • To determine if right-handed and left-handed individuals exhibit different memory recall patterns for this everyday object.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted involving participants with varying degrees of handedness.
  • Participants were assessed on their ability to recall the direction of the Queen's head on coins through verbal responses.

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Main Results:

  • Significant differences in verbal recall performance were observed between right-handed and left-handed participants.
  • Right-handed individuals demonstrated recall performance significantly below chance, whereas left-handed individuals did not.
  • Experiment 2 revealed a graded effect, with recall performance varying across the spectrum of handedness.

Conclusions:

  • Handedness significantly influences the accuracy of memory recall for the orientation of the Queen's head on coins.
  • The findings suggest that motor imagery, potentially linked to handedness, may play a role even in verbal memory tasks.
  • Both handedness and schema-based factors contribute to performance in this everyday memory paradigm.