The production effect becomes spatial

Saint-Aubin, Jean, Poirier, Marie, Yearsley, James M. and Guitard, Dominic 2024. The production effect becomes spatial. Experimental Psychology: The journal for experimental research in psychology 71 (1) , 14–32. 10.1027/1618-3169/a000609

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Abstract

In the verbal domain, it is well established that words read aloud are better remembered than their silently read counterparts. It has been hypothesized that this production effect stems from the addition of distinctive features, with the caveat that the processing that generates added features interferes with rehearsal. Here, we tested the idea that a similar trade-off is found in the visuospatial domain. In all experiments, a short series of single dots sequentially appeared at various locations on a screen. Participants produced the items by clicking on them at presentation, watched the items appear quietly, or produced an irrelevant click after each item to better even out rehearsal opportunities between produced and control conditions. In Experiment 1, the dots appeared within a visible grid and an order reconstruction task was used. Experiment 2 also called upon reconstruction, but with the grid removed. In Experiments 3, a recall task was used. The results show that producing items hindered performance compared to the control condition. Conversely, production improved performance compared to the control condition where rehearsal was hindered. This is the first demonstration of a visuospatial production effect. The key findings were successfully modeled by the Revised Feature Model (RFM).

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Publisher:	Hogrefe
ISSN:	1618-3169
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	1 July 2024
Date of Acceptance:	6 March 2024
Last Modified:	08 Nov 2024 10:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/170196

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