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Title: Individual differences in visual imagery determine how event information is remembered.
Authors: Sheldon, Signy (AUTHOR), Amaral, Robert (AUTHOR), Levine, Brian (AUTHOR)
Source: Memory. Mar2017, Vol. 25 Issue 3, p360-369. 10p.
Subjects: Experience, Image processing, Information retrieval, Memory, Stimulus & response (Psychology)
Abstract: Individuals differ in how they mentally imagine past events. When reminiscing about a past experience, some individuals remember the event accompanied by rich visual images, while others will remember it with few of these images. In spite of the implications that these differences in the use of imagery have to the understanding of human memory, few studies have taken them into consideration. We examined how imagery interference affecting event memory retrieval was differently modulated by spatial and object imagery ability. We presented participants with a series of video-clips depicting complex events. Participants subsequently answered true/false questions related to event, spatial, or feature details contained in the videos, while simultaneously viewing stimuli that interfered with visual imagery processes (dynamic visual noise; DVN) or a control grey screen. The impact of DVN on memory accuracy was related to individual differences in spatial imagery ability. Individuals high in spatial imagery were less accurate at recalling details from the videos when simultaneously viewing the DVN stimuli compared to those low in spatial imagery ability. This finding held for questions related to the event and spatial details but not feature details. This study advocates for the inclusion of individual differences when studying memory processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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