TY - JOUR
T1 - Visual memories from nonvisual experiences
AU - Shelton, Amy L.
AU - McNamara, Timothy P.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Many common activities rely on spatial knowledge acquired from nonvisual modalities. We investigated the nature of this knowledge by having people look at a collection of objects on a desk-top and manually reconstruct their arrangement, without vision, as though the display had been rotated 0°, 45°, 90°, 135°, or 180° relative to the view they could see. Performance on several measures of visual-spatial memory showed that participants had better visual memory for the view they had manually reconstructed than for the view they had studied visually for several minutes. These findings provide compelling new evidence that visual-spatial knowledge of very high fidelity can be acquired from nonvisual modalities, and reveal how visual and nonvisual spatial information may even be confused in the brain.
AB - Many common activities rely on spatial knowledge acquired from nonvisual modalities. We investigated the nature of this knowledge by having people look at a collection of objects on a desk-top and manually reconstruct their arrangement, without vision, as though the display had been rotated 0°, 45°, 90°, 135°, or 180° relative to the view they could see. Performance on several measures of visual-spatial memory showed that participants had better visual memory for the view they had manually reconstructed than for the view they had studied visually for several minutes. These findings provide compelling new evidence that visual-spatial knowledge of very high fidelity can be acquired from nonvisual modalities, and reveal how visual and nonvisual spatial information may even be confused in the brain.
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U2 - 10.1111/1467-9280.00363
DO - 10.1111/1467-9280.00363
M3 - Article
C2 - 11476104
AN - SCOPUS:0035406484
SN - 0956-7976
VL - 12
SP - 343
EP - 347
JO - Psychological Science
JF - Psychological Science
IS - 4
ER -