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TY - JOUR
T1 - Object naming induces reliance on orientation-independent representations during longer-term, but not short-term, visual remembering.
AU - Walker, Peter
AU - Kennedy, Helen
AU - Berridge, Damon
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Naming novel objects with novel count nouns changes how the objects are drawn from memory, revealing that object categorisation induces reliance on orientation-independent visual representations during longer-term remembering, but not during short-term remembering. Serial position effects integrate this finding with a more established conceptualisation of short-term and longer-term visual remembering in which the former is identified as keeping an item in mind. Adults were shown a series of four novel objects in orientations in which they would not normally be drawn from memory. When not named (“Look at this object”), the objects were drawn in the orientations in which they had been seen. When named with a novel count noun (e.g., “Look at this dax”), the final object continued to be depicted in the orientation in which it had been seen, but all other objects were depicted in an unseen but preferred (canonical) orientation, even though participants could still remember the orientations in which they had been seen. Although orientation-dependent exemplar representations appear to be more accessible than orientation-independent generic representations during short-term remembering, the reverse is the case during longer-term remembering. How the theoretical framework emerging from these observations accommodates a broader body of evidence is discussed.
AB - Naming novel objects with novel count nouns changes how the objects are drawn from memory, revealing that object categorisation induces reliance on orientation-independent visual representations during longer-term remembering, but not during short-term remembering. Serial position effects integrate this finding with a more established conceptualisation of short-term and longer-term visual remembering in which the former is identified as keeping an item in mind. Adults were shown a series of four novel objects in orientations in which they would not normally be drawn from memory. When not named (“Look at this object”), the objects were drawn in the orientations in which they had been seen. When named with a novel count noun (e.g., “Look at this dax”), the final object continued to be depicted in the orientation in which it had been seen, but all other objects were depicted in an unseen but preferred (canonical) orientation, even though participants could still remember the orientations in which they had been seen. Although orientation-dependent exemplar representations appear to be more accessible than orientation-independent generic representations during short-term remembering, the reverse is the case during longer-term remembering. How the theoretical framework emerging from these observations accommodates a broader body of evidence is discussed.
KW - Exemplar visual representations
KW - Generic visual representations
KW - Object naming
KW - Short-term remembering
KW - Longer-term visual remembering
KW - Object drawing
U2 - 10.1080/09658211.2011.613838
DO - 10.1080/09658211.2011.613838
M3 - Journal article
VL - 19
SP - 809
EP - 824
JO - Memory
JF - Memory
SN - 0965-8211
IS - 8
ER -