Absence of posture-dependent and posture-congruent memory effects on the recall of action sentences.

ABSTRACT: In two experiments with large samples of participants, we explored contextual memory effects associated with body posture, which was considered a physical and proprioceptive context and, therefore, potentially relevant to the encoding and retrieval of information. In Experiment 1 (N = 128), we studied the effect of context dependence on memory by manipulating the body posture adopted by the participants during the incidental encoding and subsequent recall of a series of action sentences not intrinsically associated with particular body postures (e.g., "to put on a pair of glasses", "to look at a postcard"). Memory performance was not affected by context manipulation, as reflected by the absence of significant differences between remembering while in the posture adopted at study or in a dif

SUBMITTER: Diez-Alamo AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6907800 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature