Walker, Peter and Mahon, Louise and Kennedy, Helen and Berridge, Damon (2012) Object specificity and personal relevance in long-term visual remembering. Memory, 21 (2). pp. 261-279. ISSN 0965-8211
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The personal relevance of an object is multi-faceted, each facet being capable of contributing to the effects on object memory attributed to personal relevance. An object’s status as an individual object (object specificity), rather than just a category of object, is one such facet and its impact on the long-term visual remembering of everyday objects is assessed in two experiments. Images and drawings were produced under generic (e.g., “Please draw a bed”) and personal exemplar (e.g., “Please draw your bed”) instructions, and participants indicated the degree to which the image on which their drawing was based was of a specific object or a generic object. Object specificity induced a sense of time and place for a remembered object, the most recent encounter with the object being most salient. Other aspects of personal relevance collectively facilitated the retrieval of an object’s category-irrelevant features (thereby increasing the vividness of the object image), the other objects with which it was seen, and a more general episodic sense of place. Against a broader theoretical perspective, it is proposed that visual episodic memory and visual knowledge are primary sources of information for specific personally relevant objects and generic objects, respectively.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Memory |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | visual knowledge ; visual episodic memory ; personal relevance ; object specificity ; visual imagery ; drawing from memory |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Departments: | Faculty of Science and Technology > Psychology Faculty of Science and Technology > Mathematics and Statistics |
| ID Code: | 57902 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
| Deposited On: | 28 Aug 2012 13:20 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Feb 2013 09:02 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/57902 |
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