Bagri, Gurjog and Jones, Gregory V.. (2009) Category-specific enhancement of retrieval due to field perspective. Memory, Vol.17 (No.3). pp. 337-345. ISSN 0965-8211

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Abstract

Two memory perspectives have been distinguished: A field perspective where events are re-experienced in the first person, and an observer perspective where events are witnessed in the third person. Two experiments examined the influence of memory perspective on objective memory performance. In both experiments participants were presented with a series of verbal passages, each of which contained several different categories of information. For four of these categories (pertaining to affective reactions, physical sensations, psychological states, and associated ideas), recall was significantly higher when a field perspective was adopted than when an observer perspective was adopted, but for the five other categories (pertaining to physical actions, personal appearance, fine details, spatial relations, and peripheral details) there was no significant effect of perspective upon recall. The study is examined in the context of mental models and imagined episodic events.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Psychology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Memory -- Testing, Recollection (Psychology), Psychology -- Research
Journal or Publication Title:	Memory
Publisher:	Psychology Press
ISSN:	0965-8211
Date:	April 2009
Volume:	Vol.17
Number:	No.3
Page Range:	pp. 337-345
Identification Number:	10.1080/09658210902740860
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
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URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/644

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