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Building a memory palace in minutes: Equivalent memory performance using virtual versus conventional environments with the Method of Loci

Overview of attention for article published in Acta Psychologica, November 2012
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
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Title
Building a memory palace in minutes: Equivalent memory performance using virtual versus conventional environments with the Method of Loci
Published in
Acta Psychologica, November 2012
DOI 10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.09.002
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Authors

Eric L.G. Legge, Christopher R. Madan, Enoch T. Ng, Jeremy B. Caplan

Abstract

The Method of Loci (MOL) is an ancient mnemonic strategy used to enhance serial recall. Traditionally, the MOL is carried out by imagining navigating a familiar environment and "placing" the to-be-remembered items in specific locations. For retrieval, the mnemonist re-imagines walking through the environment, "looking" for those items in order. Here we test a novel MOL method, where participants use a briefly studied virtual environment as the basis for the MOL and applied the strategy to 10 lists of 11 unrelated words. When our virtual environments were used, the MOL was as effective, compared to an uninstructed control group, as the traditional MOL where highly familiar environments were used. Thus, at least for naïve participants, a highly detailed environment does not support substantially better memory for verbal serial lists.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 1%
Germany 2 <1%
France 2 <1%
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
Turkey 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Unknown 223 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 48 21%
Student > Bachelor 48 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 12%
Researcher 22 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 4%
Other 37 16%
Unknown 40 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 56 24%
Computer Science 31 13%
Neuroscience 19 8%
Social Sciences 14 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 5%
Other 56 24%
Unknown 47 20%

Attention Score in Context

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