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Independent groups of subjects made magnitude estimates of the geographical areas of different countries either with a map present or from memory after the map had been studied. Both perceptual and memorial estimates were related to actual area by power functions, in which the memorial exponent was equal to the square of the perceptual exponent. The results provide additional confirmation of a “re-perceptual” model of memorial psychophysics.
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Moyer, R. S., Bradley, D. R., & Cutcomb, S. Memory psychophysics. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, April 1977.
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The authors are grateful to Sally Davies, Maureen Elstein, Sheila Hornsey, and Liz Patten for their assistance in planning and running the experiment reported here.
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Chew, E.I., Richardson, J.T.E. The relationship between perceptual and memorial psychophysics. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 16, 25–26 (1980). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337084
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