{"pk":25521,"title":"The Influence of Language on Memory for Object Location","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In this study, the influence of two types of language on memory\nfor object location was investigated: demonstratives (this, that)\nand possessives (my, your). Participants read instructions\n(containing this/that/my/your/the) to place objects at different\nlocations. They then had to recall those object locations.\nExperiments 1 and 2 tested the contrasting predictions of two\npossible accounts of language on memory: the expectation\nmodel (Coventry, Griffiths, & Hamilton, 2014) and the\ncongruence account (Bonfiglioli, Finocchiaro, Gesierich,\nRositani, & Vescovi, 2009). In Experiment 3, the role of\nattention as a possible mechanism was investigated. The results\nacross all three experiments show striking effects of language\non object location memory; objects in the “that” and “your”\ncondition were misremembered to be further away than objects\nin the “this” and “my” condition. The data favored the\nexpectation model: expected location cued by language and\nactual location are concatenated leading to (mis)memory for\nobject location.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"memory for object location; spatial\ndemonstratives; possessives"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1cx747mv","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Harmen","middle_name":"B","last_name":"Gudde","name_suffix":"","institution":"School of Psychology, University of East Anglia","department":""},{"first_name":"Kenny","middle_name":"R","last_name":"Coventry","name_suffix":"","institution":"School of Psychology, University of East Anglia","department":""},{"first_name":"Paul","middle_name":"E","last_name":"Engelhardt","name_suffix":"","institution":"School of Psychology, University of East Anglia","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25521/galley/15145/download/"}]}