TY - JOUR
T1 - No Benefit of Eye-Closure Rehearsal in a Unimodal Recognition Memory Test for Word Items
AU - Uchiyama, Tomomi
AU - Mitsudo, Hiroyuki
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Japanese Psychological Association. Published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/7/1
Y1 - 2020/7/1
N2 - Recent studies have suggested that closing the eyes helps memory retrieval in recall tests for audiovisual clips that contain multimodal information. In two experiments, we examined whether eye-closure improves recognition memory performance for word lists presented unimodally (i.e., visually or aurally). In the encoding phase, participants saw or heard a list of unrelated, meaningful word items. After a fixed retention interval of 1 week (Experiment 1, n = 110) and 5 min (Experiment 2, n = 44), the participants were asked to mentally rehearse the items with their eyes open or closed, and then they performed a recognition test. The results revealed no effect of eye-closure rehearsal on recognition performance. We discuss the possible reasons why no eye-closure benefit was found in recognition memory tests for unrelated word items.
AB - Recent studies have suggested that closing the eyes helps memory retrieval in recall tests for audiovisual clips that contain multimodal information. In two experiments, we examined whether eye-closure improves recognition memory performance for word lists presented unimodally (i.e., visually or aurally). In the encoding phase, participants saw or heard a list of unrelated, meaningful word items. After a fixed retention interval of 1 week (Experiment 1, n = 110) and 5 min (Experiment 2, n = 44), the participants were asked to mentally rehearse the items with their eyes open or closed, and then they performed a recognition test. The results revealed no effect of eye-closure rehearsal on recognition performance. We discuss the possible reasons why no eye-closure benefit was found in recognition memory tests for unrelated word items.
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U2 - 10.1111/jpr.12248
DO - 10.1111/jpr.12248
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85061598414
VL - 62
SP - 161
EP - 171
JO - Japanese Psychological Research
JF - Japanese Psychological Research
SN - 0021-5368
IS - 3
ER -