| Summary: | By using eye movement monitoring (EMM) techniques, investigators have been able to examine the processes that support relational memory as they occur online. However, EMM studies have only focused on memory for spatial relations, producing a lack of EMM evidence for temporal relations. Thus, in the present study, participants performed a recognition memory task with stimuli that varied in their spatial and temporal relations. They were presented with a sequence of objects in a unique spatial configuration, and were instructed to either detect changes in the spatial or temporal relations between study and test presentations. The results provide novel EMM evidence for an interaction between spatial and temporal memory, and the obligatory effects of relational memory processes on eye movement behaviours. Moreover, the current study was also able to test predictions from the temporal context model (Howard & Kahana, 2002), and found evidence for a temporal contiguity effect.
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