APS
2023 APS Annual Convention · 2023
The Contribution of Survival Processing to Spatial Memory
- Maria Chiara Pesola
La Sapienza University of Rome - Marco Costanzi
LUMSA University, Rome, Italy - Laura Piccardi
IRCCS San Raffaele, Rome - Laura Piccardi
La Sapienza University of Rome - Antonino Esposito
LUMSA University, Rome, Italy - Alessandro Santirocchi
La Sapienza University of Rome - Vincenzo Cestari
La Sapienza University of Rome - Clelia Rossi-Arnaud
La Sapienza University of Rome
Abstract
We aimed at investigating the effect of incidentally learned survival stimuli on a spatial memory task. In accordance with the evidence that survival processing enhances memory for location, we expect to find an advantage of the survival context in an object-relocation task.
