Event memory uniquely predicts memory for large-scale space.

ABSTRACT: When a person explores a new environment, they begin to construct a spatial representation of it. Doing so is important for navigating and remaining oriented. How does one's ability to learn a new environment relate to one's ability to remember experiences in that environment? Here, 208 adults experienced a first-person videotaped route, and then completed a spatial map construction task. They also took tests of general cognitive abilities (working memory, laboratory episodic memory, processing speed, general knowledge) and of memory for familiar, everyday activities (event memory). Regression analyses revealed that event memory (memory for everyday events and their temporal structure), laboratory episodic memory (memory for words and pictures) and gender were unique predictors of spatial

SUBMITTER: Sargent JQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8062070 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature