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major music score. Content analysis of the written subjects' free continuations of the plot was
focused on the emotional content. Results showed that the subjects' anticipations of the further
development of the film sequence were dependent on the underlying film music. Influence of
visual information and of the underscoring on the story will be presented.
4093.2 Divided attention, learning and recall: A study in adults’ memory, Mohammed reza
Afzal nia 1 , Azra Dabiri 2 , 1 Allmeh Tabataba-ee University, Iran, 2 Alzahra University, IR
The level of attention deployed in a text-reading situation is studied. Participants’ prior knowledge
(PK) and working memory (WM) capacity were assessed. While students read the text, they either
saw pictures on a computer monitor simultaneously or not. It was found that PK influences the
later recall more than WM capacity. It was found that while the higher PK groups remembered
more than the lower ones, higher WM groups did not remember significantly more than the lower
ones. These results are indicating the role of PK in recall of text reading in a divided attention
situation.
4093.3 How to make cardinal direction judgments based on integrating environmental and
egocentric frames? Ronggang Zhou, Kan Zhang, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, China
Three experiments were conducted to examine cardinal direction judgments (CDJ) in coordinating
the environmental frame of a map with egocentric frame of the forward field of view (FFOV). In
experiment 1 and 2, camera heading effect was confirmed and target location effect was found,
and there exists two kinds of CDJ. In experiment 3, two kinds of CDJ were compared, and found
that CDJ based on environmental frame was evidently harder than CDJ based on egocentric frame.
And there was a significant interaction between CDJ and gender, the gender-related difference was
more distinctive for CDJ based on environmental frame.
4093.4 The effects of rotatable electrical map on reaction time for reorientation, Ru-de Liu,
Shu Mu, Hua Shu, Tiegang Cheng, College of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, China
Two experiments were done to explore the advantage effects of rotatable electrical map on
subjects’ reorientation for turning directions. Experiment 1 demonstrated that 31 college subjects’
reaction time for judging the space relationship between a moving dot and a target dot was
significant lower in the rotatable background than in the fixed background when the background is
simplified as only the target dot. Experiment 2 demonstrated that 34 college subjects’ reaction
time was significant lower in the rotatable normal map than in the fixed one only when the moving
dot move downward.
4094 ORAL
Learning, memory and cognition
Chair: Sébastien Tremblay, Canada
4094.1 Plausibility of causal relations, Jean Pierre Rossi 1 , Jean pascal Martin 2 , Estelle
Fieve 2 , 1 Paris University, France, 2 LIMSI-CNRS
Experiments analyzed the conditions required to infer a causal relation between two events. The
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