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Comment author: lessdazed 21 November 2011 03:37:00PM 3 points [-]

Recall that the ancient method of loci involves going through doors as part of remember things.

Is this a disadvantage of it compensated for by its advantages? Is this a method it uses to reset the mind and make it easier to recall other things?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 22 November 2011 01:53:58AM 2 points [-]

My guess would be that we associate memories (especially memories of objects) with specific locations and can remember them better when we're in those locations. One, easily testable, prediction of this theory is that returning to the original room will make the memory more easily accessible.

Comment author: lessdazed 22 November 2011 07:07:16AM *  1 point [-]

One, easily testable, prediction of this theory is that returning to the original room will make the memory more easily accessible.

They tested it in a recent paper.

In Experiment 3, the original encoding context was reinstated by having a person return to the original room in which objects were first encoded. However, inconsistent with an encoding specificity account, memory did not improve by reinstating this context.

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