Boundaries Extend and Contract in Scene Memory Depending on Image Properties.

ABSTRACT: Boundary extension, a memory distortion in which observers consistently recall a scene with visual information beyond its boundaries, is widely accepted across the psychological sciences as a phenomenon revealing fundamental insight into memory representations [1-3], robust across paradigms [1, 4] and age groups [5-7]. This phenomenon has been taken to suggest that the mental representation of a scene consists of an intermingling of sensory information and a schema that extrapolates the views of a presented scene [8], and it has been used to provide evidence for the role of the neocortex [9] and hippocampus [10, 11] in the schematization of scenes during memory. However, the study of boundary extension has typically focused on object-oriented images that are not representative of our visuo

SUBMITTER: Bainbridge WA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7187786 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature