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SUBMITTER: Bainbridge WA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6315028 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bainbridge Wilma A WA Hall Elizabeth H EH Baker Chris I CI
Nature communications 20190102 1
Understanding the content of memory is essential to teasing apart its underlying mechanisms. While recognition tests have commonly been used to probe memory, it is difficult to establish what specific content is driving performance. Here, we instead focus on free recall of real-world scenes, and quantify the content of memory using a drawing task. Participants studied 30 scenes and, after a distractor task, drew as many images in as much detail as possible from memory. The resulting memory-based ...[more]