Citation

McNamara TP, Halpin JA, Hardy JK. J. Exp. Psychol. Learn. Mem. Cogn. 1992; 18(3): 555-564.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1534356

Abstract

Three experiments investigated the effects of spatial and temporal contiguity in item recognition, location judgment, and distance estimation tasks. Ss learned the locations of object names in spatial arrays, which were divided into 2 regions. The names of locations were presented during map learning so that critical pairs appeared close in space and close in time, close in space but far in time, far in space but close in time, and far in space and far in time. Names primed each other in recognition only when they were neighbors in both space and time. In contrast, the effects of spatial and temporal contiguity in priming in location judgments were additive. Finally, temporal contiguity affected estimates of Euclidean distance when locations were close together, but not when they were far apart.

Language: en