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phenomenon > memory phenomenon > picture superiority effect

Preferred term

picture superiority effect  

Definition

  • A memory phenomenon observed when memory is better for pictures than for words.

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Entry terms

  • pictorial superiority effect

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Higdon, K. F., Neath, I., Surprenant, A. M., & Ensor, T. M. (in press). Distinctiveness, not dual coding, explains the picture-superiority effect. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 17470218241235520. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241235520

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Madigan, S. (2013). Representational storage in picture memory. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 4(6), 567-568. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334293

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Paivio, A., & Csapo, K. (1973). Picture superiority in free recall: Imagery or dual coding? Cognitive Psychology, 5(2), 176-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0285(73)90032-7

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Shepard, R. N. (1967). Recognition memory for words, sentences, and pictures. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 6(1), 156-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5371(67)80067-7

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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Dataset citation(s)

  • • Ensor, T. (2018, September 29). Listening to the Picture-Superiority Effect: Evidence for the Conceptual-Distinctiveness Account of Picture Superiority in Recognition. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/YKG8S
  • • Neath, I. (2021). Picture Superiority [Data set]. OSF. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/HTM7E
  • • Van der Cruyssen, I., Regnath, F., Ben-Shakhar, G., Pertzov, Y., & Verschuere, B. (2021, January 26). Is a picture worth a thousand words? Congruency between encoding and testing improves detection of concealed memories. OSF. https://osf.io/84eas/

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