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    "pk": 25394,
    "title": "Visuo-Spatial Memory Processing and the Visual Impedance Effect",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Models of spatial reasoning often assume distinct visual and\nspatial representations. In particular, the visual impedance effect\n– slower response time when more visual details are represented\nin three-term series spatial reasoning tasks – has been\ntaken as evidence for the distinctive roles of visual and spatial\nrepresentations. In this paper, we show that a memory\nmodel of spreading activation based on the ACT-R architecture\ncan explain the visual impedance effect without the assumption\nof distinct visual and spatial representations. Using\nthe same memory representation, varying levels of visual features\nassociated with an object are represented in the model.\nThe visual impedance effect is explained by the spreading activation\nmechanism of ACT-R. The model not only provides\na more parsimonious explanation to the visual impedance effect,\nbut also leads to testable predictions of a wide range of\nmemory effects in spatial reasoning.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Visual impedance"
        },
        {
            "word": "memory processing"
        },
        {
            "word": "scalable\nrepresentation"
        },
        {
            "word": "spreading activation"
        },
        {
            "word": "ACT-R"
        },
        {
            "word": "relational reasoning"
        },
        {
            "word": "mental model theory."
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1q66c1v7",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Rebecca",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Albrecht",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Center for Cognitive Science, University of Freiburg",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Holger",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Schultheis",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Cognitive Systems, University of Bremen",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Wai-Tat",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Fu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}