Migration of objects and inferences across episodes.
Participants viewed episodes in the form of a series of photographs portraying ordinary routines (e.g., eating at a restaurant) and later received a recognition test. In Experiment 1, it was shown that objects (e.g., a vase of flowers, a pewter lantern) that appeared in a single episode during the study phase migrated between memories of episodes described by the same abstract schema (e.g., from Restaurant Episode A at study to Restaurant Episode B at test), and not between episodes anchored by different schemas. In Experiment 2, it was demonstrated that backward causal inferences from one study episode influenced memories of other episodes described by the same schema, and that high-schema-relevant items viewed in one episode were sometimes remembered as having occurred in another episode of the same schematic type.
Hannigan
Sharon L
SL
Department of Psychology, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York 13617, USA. shannigan@stlawu.edu
Reinitz
Mark Tippens
MT
D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D011897:Random Allocation; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D014796:Visual Perception