eScholarship (California Digital Library) • Vol 43 • No 43
The effect of semantic categorization on object location memory
January 2021 • Xinyi Lu, Mona J. H. Zhu, Evan F. Risko
We often organize objects around both visual and semantic boundaries in space. Across four experiments, we examined how semantically consistent partitions influenced memory for object locations. Participants learned the locations of items in a semantically partitioned display (where each partition contained objects from a single category), as well as a purely visually partitioned display (where each partition contained a random assortment of objects from different categories). While semantic partitions significant…