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Location: 44/1057 (Psychology/Shackleton Building 44, first floor)
Foundations of Enhanced Memory
Nicolas Rothen, UniDistance Suisse, Brig, Switzerland
My talk will be focused on the question why some people have better memory than others. Thereby, I will draw a link between visual perceptual ability and memory performance. Most of the empirical evidence that I will be presenting is rooted in research on memory and visual perceptual ability in grapheme-colour synaesthesia (i.e., colour experiences in response to graphemes), some of my more recent research on visual perceptual expertise (i.e., colour experts) and memory strategies for processing highly abstract shapes (i.e., images of fractals). The resulting picture supports the notion of the enhanced processing account – namely, that enhanced processing in the ventral visual pathway of the human brain is linked with better memory for stimuli biasing processing towards the ventral visual pathway, but not for stimuli biasing processing towards the dorsal visual pathway.