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The effect of strategies and contexts on memory for movement patterns
Author(s) -
Helstrup Tore
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9450.00189
Subject(s) - psychology , cognitive psychology , movement (music) , encoding (memory) , context (archaeology) , episodic memory , motor skill , developmental psychology , neuroscience , cognition , paleontology , philosophy , biology , aesthetics
Two experiments on memory for movement patterns examined possible motor aspects of this memory type. None of the experiments found any evidence for motor effects. The first experiment showed lower memory with induced motor strategies than with any of the other induced strategies. The second experiment demonstrated stronger context effects under retrieval than under encoding conditions. The results are discussed in terms of functional and structural conceptions of episodic short‐term memory of motor information.