Language and memory for object location

Harmen B. Gudde; Kenny R. Coventry; Paul E. Engelhardt

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2016.04.016

Language and memory for object location

Harmen B. Gudde^*, Kenny R. Coventry, Paul E. Engelhardt

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In three experiments, we investigated the influence of two types of language on memory for object location: demonstratives (this, that) and possessives (my, your). Participants first read instructions containing demonstratives/possessives to place objects at different locations, and then had to recall those object locations (following object removal). Experiments 1 and 2 tested contrasting predictions of two possible accounts of language on object location memory: the Expectation Model (Coventry, Griffiths, & Hamilton, 2014) and the congruence account (Bonfiglioli, Finocchiaro, Gesierich, Rositani, & Vescovi, 2009). In Experiment 3, the role of attention allocation as a possible mechanism was investigated. Results across all three experiments show striking effects of language on object location memory, with the pattern of data supporting the Expectation Model. In this model, the expected location cued by language and the actual location are concatenated leading to (mis)memory for object location, consistent with models of predictive coding (Bar, 2009; Friston, 2003).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	99-107
Number of pages	9
Journal	Cognition
Volume	153
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.04.016
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2016
Externally published	Yes

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All authors have no competing interests nor conflict of interests to declare. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development, and demonstration under grant agreement no. 316748 .

Funders	Funder number
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme	676063
Economic and Social Research Council	ES/I000844/1
Seventh Framework Programme	316748

Keywords

Memory
Object location
Peripersonal/extrapersonal space
Possessives
Spatial demonstratives

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