Spataro Pietro, Marques Valeria R S, Longobardi Emiddia, Rossi-Arnaud Clelia
Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Via dei Marsi 78, 00185, Rome, Italy.
Cogn Process. 2015 Sep;16 Suppl 1:377-81. doi: 10.1007/s10339-015-0681-1.
The present study examined the question of whether pointing enhances the serial recall of visuospatial positions. Thirty-six participants were presented with 40 target arrays varying in length from five to eight items, with each position appearing sequentially in red for 1 s. The task was to reproduce the order of presentation of the positions on a blank matrix. Results showed that, for five-, six-, and seven-item arrays, order memory was significantly better in the passive view than in the pointing condition, and the serial position curves displayed both recency and priority effects. Interestingly, the advantage of the passive-view condition was more pronounced in the early than in the late positions. For eight-item arrays, no significant differences were found between the passive view and the pointing conditions. Overall, the present data provide no evidence in support of the view that pointing facilitates the recall of serial positions.
本研究探讨了指示是否能增强对视觉空间位置的系列回忆这一问题。36名参与者观看了40个目标阵列，长度从5项到8项不等，每个位置依次以红色显示1秒。任务是在空白矩阵上重现这些位置的呈现顺序。结果表明，对于5项、6项和7项的阵列，被动观看条件下的顺序记忆显著优于指示条件，系列位置曲线显示出近因效应和首因效应。有趣的是，被动观看条件的优势在早期位置比在后期位置更为明显。对于8项的阵列，被动观看和指示条件之间未发现显著差异。总体而言，目前的数据没有提供证据支持指示有助于系列位置回忆的观点。
