Multisensory processing impacts memory for objects and their sources.

ABSTRACT: Multisensory object processing improves recognition memory for individual objects, but its impact on memory for neighboring visual objects and scene context remains largely unknown. It is therefore unclear how multisensory processing impacts episodic memory for information outside of the object itself. We conducted three experiments to test the prediction that the presence of audiovisual objects at encoding would improve memory for nearby visual objects, and improve memory for the environmental context in which they occurred. In Experiments 1a and 1b, participants viewed audiovisual-visual object pairs or visual-visual object pairs with a control sound during encoding and were subsequently tested on their memory for each object individually. In Experiment 2, objects were paired with semant

SUBMITTER: Duarte SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11868352 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature