%0 Journal Article
%T How visual memory changes with intervening recall
%A Deborah H Tan
%A Yuhong V Jiang
%J Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
%@ 1747-0226
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1747021818808524
%X Being asked to recount a visual memory is common in educational settings, spatial navigation, and crime investigation. Previous studies show that recounting one¡¯s memory can benefit subsequent memory, but most of this work either used verbal materials or conflated category memory with memory for visual details. To test whether recounting may introduce visually-specific interference effects, we tested people¡¯s memory for photographs of objects, but introduced an intervening phase in which people described their memory. We separated memory for the specific exemplar from memory for the basic-level category. Contrary to recent findings on maps and colours, the intervening retrieval practice did not consistently strengthen exemplar memory of objects. Instead, recounting one¡¯s visual memory appeared to introduce interference that sometimes cancelled the benefit of increased retrieval effort. Delaying the final memory test by 24£¿hr increased the benefit of retrieval practice. These findings suggest that intervening retrieval has multiple effects on visual memory. Instead of being a snapshot, this memory constantly changes with retrieval practice and with time
%K Visual memory
%K intervening recall
%K testing effect
%K verbal overshadowing
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1747021818808524