Recognition Memory and Affective Preference for Depth-rotated Solid Objects: Part-based Structural Descriptions May Underlie the Mere Exposure Effect
Following Biederman and Gerhardstein (1993) and Srinivas (1995), we tested whether different representations are necessary to describe explicit and implicit memory performance for depth-rotated solid objects
in the mere exposure paradigm. Subjects were presented with novel three-dimensional objects, followed by an explicit recognition memory or an implicit affective preference test. In Experiment 1, recognition
memory but not affective preference was impaired by an 80 depth rotation of the objects between study and test. In Experiment 2, when subjects had to discriminate between 0 and 80 views of previously studied
objects, recognition memory was greater than chance but affective performance was not. These findings imply that the representations used for recognition memory coded depth orientation information, whereas
those used for affective preference did not. The results are discussed in terms of viewpoint-specific and viewpoint-invariant representations for explicit and implicit memory.
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 April 1999
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