Sampaio Cristina, Cardwell Brittany A
Department of Psychology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2012;65(10):1865-71. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2012.696120. Epub 2012 Sep 17.
The category adjustment (CA) approach to distortions in location memory has been largely documented in simplified lab-created spaces but minimally in navigable real-world environments. In the current paper, we extend the approach to a navigable real-world environment and specifically evaluate the assumption that long-term location memory may be retrievable despite errors in recall. Memory for the location of a fountain in a heavily navigated square on a university campus was tested by reproduction on a photograph of the square and then by a forced-choice recognition test. While the recall data showed the standard bias, the recognition data revealed chance-level performance. The pattern of results suggests a possible difference between accessibility of working memories for locations within laboratory-created spaces and long-term memories for locations within complex navigable spaces. The results are discussed in terms of the CA model.
位置记忆失真的类别调整（CA）方法在很大程度上已在简化的实验室创建空间中得到记录，但在可导航的现实世界环境中记录极少。在当前论文中，我们将该方法扩展到可导航的现实世界环境，并特别评估了尽管回忆存在错误，但长期位置记忆仍可能可检索的假设。通过在大学校园一个人流密集的广场照片上进行再现，然后进行强制选择识别测试，来测试对广场中一个喷泉位置的记忆。虽然回忆数据显示出标准偏差，但识别数据显示出随机水平的表现。结果模式表明，实验室创建空间内位置的工作记忆可及性与复杂可导航空间内位置的长期记忆之间可能存在差异。根据CA模型对结果进行了讨论。
