Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Author "Meade, Melissa E."
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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 ... -
The benefits and boundary conditions of drawing on episodic memory
Meade, Melissa (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)Drawing, as an encoding strategy for to-be-remembered words, has previously been shown to provide robust episodic memory benefits in young adults. In this dissertation, I provide experimental evidence that drawing enhances ... -
Interfering with episodic memory for words and pictures to uncover their representational codes
Meade, Melissa (University of Waterloo, 2015-09-09)In this thesis, a divided attention paradigm was used to infer the representational codes used by words and pictures in long-term memory. Semantically categorized lists of words (Expt. 1) or pictures (Expt. 2, 3, 4, and ...