Out of mind, out of sight: language affects perceptual vividness in memory.

We examined whether language affects the strength of a visual representation in memory. Participants studied a picture, read a story about the depicted object, and then selected out of two pictures the one whose transparency level most resembled that of the previously presented picture. The stories...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lisa Vandeberg, Anita Eerland, Rolf A Zwaan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3340353?pdf=render