TY - JOUR
T1 - Retrieving against the flow
T2 - Incoherence between optic flow and movement direction has little effect on memory for order
AU - Díez, Emiliano
AU - Díez-Álamo, Antonio M.
AU - Wojcik, Dominika Z.
AU - Glenberg, Arthur
AU - Fernandez, Angel
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Aikaterini Stefanidi for first bringing the Cei et al. (2014) article to our attention. MINECO (Spain) supported this research (grant PSI2013-42872-P). AG was partially supported by the University of Salamanca, Investigador Distinguido program. AD-Á was supported by the University of Salamanca and Banco Santander (grant 463A.B.01, 2013).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Díez, Díez-Álamo, Wojcik, Glenberg and Fernandez.
PY - 2018/3/26
Y1 - 2018/3/26
N2 - Research from multiple areas in neuroscience suggests a link between self-locomotion and memory. In two free recall experiments with adults, we looked for a link between (a) memory, and (b) the coherence of movement and optic flow. In both experiments, participants heard lists of words while on a treadmill and wearing a virtual reality (VR) headset. In the first experiment, the VR scene and treadmill were stationary during encoding. During retrieval, all participants walked forward, but the VR scene was stationary, moved forward, or moved backwards. In the second experiment, during encoding all participants walked forward and viewed a forward-moving VR scene. During retrieval, all participants continued to walk forward but the VR scene was stationary, forward-moving, or backward-moving. In neither experiment was there a significant difference in the amount recalled, or output order strategies, attributable to differences in movement conditions. Thus, any effects of movement on memory are more limited than theories of hippocampal function and theories in cognitive psychology anticipate.
AB - Research from multiple areas in neuroscience suggests a link between self-locomotion and memory. In two free recall experiments with adults, we looked for a link between (a) memory, and (b) the coherence of movement and optic flow. In both experiments, participants heard lists of words while on a treadmill and wearing a virtual reality (VR) headset. In the first experiment, the VR scene and treadmill were stationary during encoding. During retrieval, all participants walked forward, but the VR scene was stationary, moved forward, or moved backwards. In the second experiment, during encoding all participants walked forward and viewed a forward-moving VR scene. During retrieval, all participants continued to walk forward but the VR scene was stationary, forward-moving, or backward-moving. In neither experiment was there a significant difference in the amount recalled, or output order strategies, attributable to differences in movement conditions. Thus, any effects of movement on memory are more limited than theories of hippocampal function and theories in cognitive psychology anticipate.
KW - Cognitive neuroscience
KW - Hippocampus
KW - Memory
KW - Self-locomotion
KW - Theta rhythm
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U2 - 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00102
DO - 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00102
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85046889237
VL - 12
JO - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
JF - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
SN - 1662-5161
M1 - 102
ER -