Animates are better remembered than inanimates: further evidence from word and picture stimuli.

In three experiments, we showed that animate entities are remembered better than inanimate entities. Experiment 1 revealed better recall for words denoting animate than inanimate items. Experiment 2 replicated this finding with the use of pictures. In Experiment 3, we found better recognition for an...

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Published in:	Memory & Cognition Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 370 - 383
Main Authors:	Bonin, Patrick, Gelin, Margaux, Bugaiska, Aurélia
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Apr2014
Subjects:	Memory Recognition (Psychology) Task performance Research funding Short-term memory Thought & thinking Descriptive statistics
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost