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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

Weight As an Embodiment of Importance? Not an Explicit Cue for Important Autobiographical Memory

Virtual · June 2020

Poster Sessions · Cognitive

  • Yi Shao
    Oklahoma City University

Abstract

The effect of weight on the importance remains controversial. Away from the area of embodied cognition, the current study examined whether the association between weight and importance could be established in autobiographical memory recollection. Memories cued by “heavy” were not more important than those cued by “light”.

Memory