Perceptually driven movements as contextual retrieval cues

Abstract

Items were learned in the context of either a horizontal or a vertical eye movement, and later were retrieved in the context of the same or a different eye movement. The effect of a match in eye movement was measured for both perceptual processing and episodic recognition. Results indicate that the same eye movement significantly facilitated recognition speed of learned items, relative to recognition speed of items retrieved with a different eye movement. These data suggest that bodily information may be a salient dimension of the information represented in memory for an event, and that it can mediate context-dependent memory in other areas of experimental interest. © 1988, Psychonomic Society, Inc.. All rights reserved.