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Published in: Cognitive Processing 1/2015

01-09-2015 | Short Report

Remember down, look down, read up: Does a word modulate eye trajectory away from remembered location?

Authors: Armina Janyan, Ivan Vankov, Oksana Tsaregorodtseva, Alex Miklashevsky

Published in: Cognitive Processing | Special Issue 1/2015

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Abstract

Previous studies show that eye movement trajectory curves away from a remembered visual location if a saccade needs to be made in the same direction as the location. Data suggest that part of the process of maintaining the location in working memory is the mental simulation of that location, so that the oculomotor system treats the remembered location as a real one. Other research suggests that word meaning may also behave like a ‘real object’ in space. The current study aimed to combine the two streams of research examining the effect of word meaning on the memory of a dot location. The results of two experiments showed that word meaning for ‘up’ (but not ‘down’) modulated both eye movement trajectory and location recognition time. Thus, mental simulation of task-irrelevant space-related word meaning affected both earlier stages of memory processes (maintenance of the location in the working memory) and later ones (location recognition).

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Metadata
Title
Remember down, look down, read up: Does a word modulate eye trajectory away from remembered location?
Authors
Armina Janyan
Ivan Vankov
Oksana Tsaregorodtseva
Alex Miklashevsky
Publication date
01-09-2015
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Cognitive Processing / Issue Special Issue 1/2015
Print ISSN: 1612-4782
Electronic ISSN: 1612-4790
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-015-0718-5

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