Time Space and Memory for Order

Fischer‐Baum, Simon; Benjamin, Aaron S.

doi:10.1037/e633262013-944

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“…High‐use items tend to be stored more centrally in the workspace, while low‐use objects are stored at the periphery, which confirms earlier results 44 . As far as spatialization is concerned, the left‐to‐right order seems to be preferred in terms of memory performance 41,42 . Spatialization could be envisaged as the process of mentally finding the best (sequence of) spatial locations to facilitate first the storage (encoding phase) and subsequently the search to retrieve memoranda (retrieval phase).…”

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“…Two studies 41,42 have indeed shown that there is a mnemonic advantage. Fischer‐Baum and Benjamin, 41 for example, asked their (Western) participants to recall lists of six letters, which could appear from left to right or right to left on the screen. No matter if the participants were asked to recall the letters in forward or backward fashion, the left‐to‐right condition produced a better average recall.…”

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“…Hence, it helps for understanding the results from Fischer-Baum and Benjamin 41 and McCrink and Shaki, 42 by excluding one type of interpretation. In effect, given that our results show that the left-to-right and right-to-left presentations are spatially comparable in terms of magnitude, and given the fact that there is a mnemonic advantage for the left-to-right presentation over the right-to-left presentation (for Westerners 41,42 ), this can be interpreted as showing that the mnemonic advantage is not due to a difference in terms of spatial magnitude between both types of presentations. One possible explanation would be that, although we are capable of mentally using a left-to-right or right-to-left spatial organization, the cognitive system is more efficient when the information follows reading/ writing direction.…”

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“…44 As far as spatialization is concerned, the left-to-right order seems to be preferred in terms of memory performance. 41,42 Spatialization could be envisaged as the process of mentally finding the best (sequence of) spatial locations to facilitate first the storage (encoding phase) and subsequently the search to retrieve memoranda (retrieval phase). At this stage, we do not know which mnemonic phase is responsible for the difference (between the left-to-right and right-to-left displays) found by Fischer-Baum and Benjamin; 41 future research will need to clarify this.…”

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About the interplay between internal and external spatial codes in the mind: implications for serial order

Guida

Abrahamse

Dijck

2020

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Previous studies have shown that serial order in verbal working memory is spontaneously coded along the horizontal axis (i.e., the spatial positional association response codes (SPoARC) effect), with the initial items being associated with left and the last items being associated with right. These studies have led to the idea that when the cognitive system is confronted with a sequence of items processed verbally and semantically, it internally generates a spatial coordinate frame onto which memoranda can be bound to maintain their serial information. In this study, the interplay between internal and external spatial codes in the mind was investigated by testing the flexibility of the SPoARC effect. A verbal Sternberg probe detection task was used in which the displayed direction of the items during encoding (centrally, from left-to-right and from right-to-left) and the presentation rate (1-and 5-s/item) were manipulated. SPoARC effects were found in all conditions but were reversed in the right-to-left presentation condition. Follow-up analyses revealed no evidence of any spatial cost for the reversal; moreover, it was not influenced by the presentation rates. These findings suggest that space can be flexibly recruited for the spontaneous coding of serial order. The theoretical implications of these observations are discussed.

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confidence: 97%

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About the interplay between internal and external spatial codes in the mind: implications for serial order

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Abrahamse

Dijck

2020

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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“…Moreover, item recall is more influenced by linguistic knowledge than order recall (see for example Saint‐Aubin and Poirier []). More recent work suggests that serial order information can be processed using different codes such as item‐to‐item association, or start‐anchored or end‐anchored position (see for example Fischer‐Baum and McCloskey []) or depending on their rhythm in spoken sequences [Hartley et al, ], and, finally, recall of temporal order information is more accurate with congruent spatial order information [Fischer‐Baum and Benjamin, ]. All these different codes for serial information could depend on different neural substrates, although this does not seem an economical solution.…”

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Mapping the brain network of the phonological loop

Papagno

Comi

Riva

et al. 2017

Human Brain Mapping

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The cortical and subcortical neural correlates underlying item and order information in verbal short-term memory (STM) were investigated by means of digit span in 29 patients with direct electrical stimulation during awake surgery for removal of a neoplastic lesion. Stimulation of left Broca's area interfered with span, producing significantly more item than order errors, as compared to the stimulation of the supramarginal/angular gyrus, which also interfered with span but, conversely, produced more order than item errors. Similarly, stimulation of the third segment of the left superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF-III), also known as anterior segment of the arcuate fascicle (AF), produced more order than item errors. Therefore, we obtained two crucial results: first, we were able to distinguish between content and order information storage. Second, we demonstrated that the SLF-III is involved in transferring order information from Geschwind's area to Broca's area. In a few patients, we demonstrated that also order information of nonverbal material was disrupted by left supramarginal gyrus stimulation. Order information is thus likely stored in the supramarginal gyrus, possibly independently from the nature of the material. Hum Brain Mapp 38:3011-3024, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Infants learn better from left to right: a directional bias in infants’ sequence learning

Bulf

Hevia

Gariboldi

et al. 2017

Sci Rep

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A wealth of studies show that human adults map ordered information onto a directional spatial continuum. We asked whether mapping ordinal information into a directional space constitutes an early predisposition, already functional prior to the acquisition of symbolic knowledge and language. While it is known that preverbal infants represent numerical order along a left-to-right spatial continuum, no studies have investigated yet whether infants, like adults, organize any kind of ordinal information onto a directional space. We investigated whether 7-month-olds’ ability to learn high-order rule-like patterns from visual sequences of geometric shapes was affected by the spatial orientation of the sequences (left-to-right vs. right-to-left). Results showed that infants readily learn rule-like patterns when visual sequences were presented from left to right, but not when presented from right to left. This result provides evidence that spatial orientation critically determines preverbal infants’ ability to perceive and learn ordered information in visual sequences, opening to the idea that a left-to-right spatially organized mental representation of ordered dimensions might be rooted in biologically-determined constraints on human brain development.

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Time Space and Memory for Order

Cited by 4 publications

References 10 publications

About the interplay between internal and external spatial codes in the mind: implications for serial order

About the interplay between internal and external spatial codes in the mind: implications for serial order

Mapping the brain network of the phonological loop

Infants learn better from left to right: a directional bias in infants’ sequence learning

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