The mental representation of spatial descriptions

K Mani, PN Johnson-Laird - Memory & Cognition, 1982 - Springer
… We therefore looked at what happened on those trials on which the subjects recalled the
meaning of a description correctly (ie, correctly ranked the original and paraphrase prior to the …

The role of visuo-spatial abilities in recall of spatial descriptions: A mediation model

C Meneghetti, R De Beni, F Pazzaglia… - Learning and Individual …, 2011 - Elsevier
… -spatial and verbal) abilities. Participants then listened to spatial descriptions and performed
spatial recall … an order for how visuo-spatial abilities modulate environmental learning, with …

Spatial–semantic display processing: The role of spatial structure on recall

D Newbern, DF Dansereau, ME Patterson - Contemporary Educational …, 1997 - Elsevier
… of spatial–semantic display processing by comparing the aided and unaided recall of
information presented in a node-link format (knowledge map) to the aided and unaided recall of …

Descriptions and depictions of environments

HA Taylor, B Tversky - Memory & cognition, 1992 - Springer
… Therefore, the subjects followed the description instructions by conveying the spatial layout
… each subject, recall order on both memory tasks was listed. In descriptions, recall order was …

Developmental differences in the use of verbatim versus spatial representations in the recall of spatial descriptions: A probabilistic model and an experimental …

S Morra - Journal of Memory and Language, 1989 - Elsevier
… Such is the case of a psycholinguistic task with spatial descriptions such as: “The spoon is to
… Subjects receive such descriptions and are asked to depict diagrams of them. This task was …

Visuospatial working memory and the processing of spatial descriptions

E Deyzac, RH Logie, M Denis - British Journal of Psychology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
descriptions resulted in similar recall performance in the absence of an interfering task and
landmarks were consistently less well recalled … the visual and spatial components of working …

Comprehension and recall of spatial descriptions.

M Denis, G Denhière - Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/Current …, 1990 - psycnet.apa.org
… ) of a text describing spatial configuration. VS 1 was a linear, systematic description, proceeding
… When information was recalled on a blank map, Ss performed better after reading VS 1. …

Spatial and verbal components of the act of recall.

LR Brooks - Canadian Journal of Psychology/Revue canadienne …, 1968 - psycnet.apa.org
… people do concurrently handle two different forms of the "same" information: visualizing a
verbal description; recalling a picture while thinking of partially descriptive verbal phrases; and …

Perspective in spatial descriptions

HA Taylor, B Tversky - Journal of memory and language, 1996 - Elsevier
… Both instructions informed the subjects that they would study a map for 5 min in order to
later recall the information. The instructions described different recall tasks, one telling the …

Spatial mental models derived from survey and route descriptions

HA Taylor, B Tversky - Journal of Memory and language, 1992 - Elsevier
… of description subjects on all tasks. Readers apparently form the same spatial mental models
capturing the spatial relations between landmarks from both survey and route descriptions, …