When less is more: Line drawings lead to greater boundary extension than do colour photographs
Open Access
- 27 July 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Visual Cognition
- Vol. 20 (7), 815-824
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2012.703705
Abstract
Is boundary extension (false memory beyond the edges of the view) determined solely by the schematic structure of the view or does the quality of the pictorial information impact this error? To examine this, colour photographs or line-drawings of 12 multi-object scenes (Experiment 1: N=64) and 16 single-object scenes (Experiment 2: N=64) were presented for 14 s each. At test, the same pictures were each rated as being the “same”, “closer-up”, or “farther away” (five-point scale). Although the layout, the scope of the view, the distance of the main objects to the edges, the background space and the gist of the scenes were held constant, line drawings yielded greater boundary extension than did their photographic counterparts for multi-object (Experiment 1) and single-object (Experiment 2) scenes. Results are discussed in the context of the multisource model and its implications for the study of scene perception and memory.Keywords
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