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This research aims to understand how object nameability, context, and placement influence the memory of object locations.

August 6, 2026Open Access

Where was it? The impact of object nameability, surrounding context, and object placement on episodic object-location memory.

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Randomized trial investigates how object nameability and placement affect episodic memory for locations, suggesting verbal encoding plays a key role.

This research aims to understand how object nameability, context, and placement influence the memory of object locations.
Participants memorized objects that were either easy or difficult to name, placed at various screen locations.
The impact of surrounding context was tested by displaying objects individually or in groups of four before recalling their locations.
An articulatory suppression task was used in one experiment to evaluate verbal encoding effects on memory.
Easily nameable objects showed a significant location-memory advantage compared to difficult-to-name objects.
Surrounding context did not affect memory performance for object locations.
Memory performance improved for easily nameable objects in a diamond placement array compared to a square array.

Brodwolf et al. (2026) studied this question.

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Randomized trial investigates how object nameability and placement affect episodic memory for locations, suggesting verbal encoding plays a key role.