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PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 11, Issue 6, Pages 454-461Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00288
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Eye movements were monitored to assess memory for scenes indirectly (implicitly). Two eye movement-based memory phenomena were observed: (a) the repetition effect, a decrease in sampling of previously viewed scenes compared with new scenes, reflecting memory for those scenes, and (b) the relational manipulation effect, an increase in viewing of the regions where manipulations of relations among scene elements had occurred. In normal control subjects, the relational manipulation effect was expressed only in the absence of explicit awareness of the scene manipulations. Thus, memory representations of scenes contain information about relations among elements of the scenes, at least some of which is not accessible to verbal report. But amnesic patients with severe memory impairment failed to show the relational manipulation effect. Their failure to show any demonstrable memory for relation's among the constituent elements scenes suggests that amnesia involves a fundamental deficit in relational (declarative) memory processing.
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