Temporal encoding strategies result in boosts to final free recall performance comparable to spatial ones.
The method of loci is a highly effective mnemonic that recruits existing salient memory for spatial locations and uses the information as a scaffold for remembering a list of items (Yates, 1966). One possible account for the effectiveness of the spatial method of loci comes from the perspective that...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 17 - 32 |
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