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

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 380-390

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Episodic memory; Imageability; Method of Loci; Mnemonic strategies; Serial recall; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; RECALL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867635950     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.09.002     Document Type: Article

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