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Items on the Left Are Better Remembered

Sergio Della Sala¹, Stephen Darling² & Robert Logie¹

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1. Univeristy of Edinburgh, Human Cognitive Neuroscience
2. Queen Margaret University, Psychology

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Received 19 November 2008 17:03 UTC; Posted 21 November 2008

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We report evidence of a new phenomenon from three experiments: a leftward bias when people try to remember visually presented information. Experiments 1 and 2 showed lateral leftward biases in memory in a large (total N>60000) sample of participants, with data collected via the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) web site. Experiment 3 replicated the findings of a leftwards bias in short-term memory with a more intensive data collection.

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Noah Gray on 16 December 2008 19:32 UTC

Much more information needs to be provided regarding the participants. If the subjects predominantly came from Western societies who read from left to right, a pre-bias of attention to the left could explicitly explain the memory results.

One would need to test this explicitly with those who read from right to left to see if the opposite finding is true.

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Della Sala, Sergio, Darling, Stephen, and Logie, Robert. Items on the Left Are Better Remembered. Available from Nature Precedings <http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2008.2540.1> (2008)

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