Browsing University of Waterloo by Author "Fernandes, Myra A."
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Active Navigation in Virtual Environments Benefits Spatial Memory in Older Adults
Meade, Melissa E.; Meade, John G.; Sauzeon, Hélène; Fernandes, Myra A. (MDPI, 2019-03)We investigated age differences in memory for spatial routes that were either actively or passively encoded. A series of virtual environments were created and presented to 20 younger (Mean age = 19.71) and 20 older (Mean ... -
Emotional Encoding Context Leads to Memory Bias in Individuals with High Anxiety
Lee, Christopher; Fernandes, Myra A. (MDPI, 2018-01)We investigated whether anxious individuals, who adopt an inherently negative mindset, demonstrate a particularly salient memory bias for words tainted by negative contexts. To this end, sequentially presented target words, ... -
Meaningful faces: Self-relevance of semantic context in an initial social encounter improves later face recognition
McCrackin, Sarah D.; Lee, Christopher M.; Itier, Roxane J.; Fernandes, Myra A. (Springer, 2021-02)Self-relevant stimuli (i.e. meaningful/important to the observer and related to the self) are typically remembered better than other-relevant stimuli. However, whether a self-relevance memory benefit could be conferred to ...