title: Visuospatial bootstrapping: long-term memory representations are necessary for implicit binding of verbal and visuospatial working memory.
abstract: It has recently been shown that presenting additional visuospatial information alongside to-be-remembered numbers in a digit span task enhances participants' memory for those items. However, the mechanisms behind this visuospatial bootstrapping effect have remained unspecified. In this article, we report evidence that this effect involves an integration of information from verbal and visuospatial temporary memory with long-term-memory (LTM) representations and that the existence of a relevant LTM representation is necessary for bootstrapping to occur.
authors.affiliation: Division of Psychology and Sociology, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh EH21 6UU, UK. sdarling@qmu.ac.uk
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Darling
authors.forename: Richard J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.forename: Jelena
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Havelka
authors.forename: Aileen
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.forename: Emma
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rattray
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D057567:Memory, Long-Term; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D011939:Mental Recall; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D012691:Serial Learning; D013028:Space Perception; D055815:Young Adult