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Fig. 1 | BMC Psychology

Fig. 1

From: Doorways do not always cause forgetting: a multimodal investigation

Fig. 1

Screenshots and Layout of the Custom-made Virtual Environment for Experiments 1 and 2. (a) After being moved to a new table, participants were required to first place the object acquired in the previous room on the new table. This was done by participants reaching behind their head with the left controller and “taking the object out of their backpack” by holding the back trigger, and then releasing the trigger when positioned over the table. (b) Participants then picked up the next object and placed it in their backpack, by gripping the back trigger and reaching behind their head, and then releasing the trigger. (c) Upon releasing the object into their backpack, participants were passively moved backwards, then turned left or right (either towards a door or towards another part of the room) and moved towards the next table. Halfway along the trajectory, a probe screen appeared with an object description (colour and shape). Participants responded “yes” (right controller) or “no” (left controller) as to whether the probe described either the object that was most recently set down or the object that was most recently picked up. Probes would always be a combination of the colour and shape of the set-down and picked-up object (here, the probes could be: “green pole”, “yellow cross”, “green cross”, or “yellow pole”). (d) A bird’s eye view of an example map layout, with 6 trials (“shifts” indicated by solid red arrows and “no shifts” indicated by dashed purple arrows). All images in the figure have been created by the authors

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