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phenomenon > memory phenomenon > picture complexity effect

Preferred term

picture complexity effect  

Definition

  • Better memory for complex pictures than for simple pictures.

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Nguyen, K., & McDaniel, M. A. (2015). The picture complexity effect: Another list composition paradox. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41(4), 1026-1037. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000071

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Zucco, G., Bardesano, T. A., & Cornoldi, C. (1984). Il ruolo di dettagli non essenziali e della loro predicibilità contestuale nella rievocazione di nomi di figure. = The role of nonessential details and of their contextual predictability in the recall of the names of pictures. Ricerche di Psicologia, 8(4), 43-58.

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

Moderator variable(s)

  • • List composition: the effect is present in mixed lists, combining complex and simple pictures, but not when comparing pure lists, composed only of complex or simple pictures (Ngyen & McDaniel, 1999).

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