PMID: 11934405Apr 6, 2002Paper

Switching between environmental representations in memory

Cognition
James R Brockmole, Ranxiao Frances Wang

Abstract

In everyday life we accomplish tasks that require the storage and access of mental representations of different environments that we are not currently perceiving. Past research has suggested that environments are encoded by a series of independent representations that are organized in memory. Three experiments tested this idea further by asking whether multiple representations of environments can be accessed simultaneously. Using a cued task-set switching paradigm, subjects judged spatial relationships between target locations in two familiar environments. Response times were longer when successive trials probed different environments, an effect not due to switching between semantic categories or semantic priming, suggesting that representations of environments are accessed sequentially. Implications for various hypotheses concerning the properties of environmental representations are discussed.

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Feb 19, 2003·Cognition·James R Brockmole, Ranxiao Frances Wang
Jun 5, 2003·Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition·Ranxiao Frances Wang, James R Brockmole
Mar 6, 2004·Psychonomic Bulletin & Review·Ranxiao Frances Wang, James R Brockmole
Dec 4, 2012·Memory·Daniel P A ClarkThom Baguley
Aug 23, 2017·Attention, Perception & Psychophysics·Andrew ClementJames R Brockmole

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