{"pk":26125,"title":"Improving Visual Memory with Auditory Input","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Can input in one sensory modality strengthen memory in adifferent sensory modality? To address this question, weasked participants to encode images presented in variouslocations (e.g., a depicted dog in the top left corner of thescreen) while they heard spatially uninformative sounds.Some of these sounds matched the image (e.g., the word“dog” or a barking sound) while others did not. In asubsequent memory test, participants were better atremembering the locations of images that were encoded witha matching sound, even though these sounds were spatiallyuninformative – an effect that was mediated by whether thesounds were verbal or non-verbal. Because the sounds did notprovide any relevant location information, better spatialmemory cannot be attributed to auditory memory; rather, it isattributed to visual memory being strengthened by thematching auditory input. These findings provide the firstbehavioral evidence for cross-modal interactions in memory.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Audio-Visual Integration; Memory; MultisensoryProcessing; Visual Spatial Memory"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/89z2r360","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Scott","middle_name":"R.","last_name":"Schroeder","name_suffix":"","institution":"Northwestern University","department":""},{"first_name":"Viorica","middle_name":"","last_name":"Marian","name_suffix":"","institution":"Northwestern University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T10:00:00-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26125/galley/15761/download/"}]}