Rehearsal in serial memory for visual-spatial information: evidence from eye movements.
It is well established that rote rehearsal plays a key role in serial memory for lists of verbal items. Although a great deal of research has informed us about the nature of verbal rehearsal, much less attention has been devoted to rehearsal in serial memory for visual-spatial information. By using the dot task--a visual-spatial analogue of the classical verbal serial recall task--with delayed recall, performance and eyetracking data were recorded in order to establish whether visual-spatial rehearsal could be evidenced by eye movement. The use of eye movement as a form of rehearsal is detectable (Experiment 1), and it seems to contribute to serial memory performance over and above rehearsal based on shifts of spatial attention (Experiments 1 and 2).
Tremblay
Sébastien
S
Ecole de psychologie, Université Laval, Quebec, PQ G1K 7P4, Canada. sebastien.tremblay@psy.ulaval.ca
Saint-Aubin
Jean
J
Jalbert
Annie
A
D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D010507:Periodicity; D013028:Space Perception; D014796:Visual Perception