Virtual memory palaces: immersion aids recall

Virtual Memory Palaces: Immersion aids Recall

Virtual reality displays, such as head-mounted displays (HMD) afford us a superior spatial awareness by leveraging our vestibular and proprioceptive senses. Since the classical times, people have used memory palaces as a spatial mnemonic to help remember information by organizing it spatially in an environment and associating it with salient features in that environment. In this paper, we explo...

Sleep after learning aids memory recall.

In recent years, the effect of sleep on memory consolidation has received considerable attention. In humans, these studies concentrated mainly on procedural types of memory, which are considered to be hippocampus-independent. Here, we show that sleep also has a persisting effect on hippocampus-dependent declarative memory. In two experiments, we examined high school students' ability to remembe...

Presence and Memory: Immersive Virtual Reality Effects on Cued Recall

Presence, the psychological experience of “being there,” is an important construct to consider when investigating the impact of mediated experiences on cognition. Though several studies have investigated the influence of presence on the memory of virtual environments (i.e. recalling virtual objects), few have tested how presence impacts memory on subsequent tasks in the physical world. Thirty-t...

Memory, Recall Dynamics

How do we search our memories to recall information that occurred in a given temporal context? In the laboratory, this basic question concerning human memory is addressed by asking people to study a sequence of individually presented items (typically words) and then to try to recall all of the items they can remember in any order. This task, first introduced by E.A. Kirkpatrick in 1894, is term...

What about Memory, Consciousness, Recall, and Awareness in Anesthesia?