Parker and Dagnall et al

Question 1

In which years did parker and dagnall publish their papers?

Answer 1

2007 - 2012

Question 2

What type of memories did they find saccades could improve retrieval of?

Answer 2

episodic autobiographical memories

Question 3

Which type of memories did saccades not improve retrieval of?

Answer 3

semantic memories, whether autobiographical or not.

Question 4

They measured brain activity and found that saccades did what?

Answer 4

generated more frontal cortical activity than smooth pursuit eye movements

Question 5

What did they find saccades enhanced the retrieval of?

Answer 5

complex visual info in the form of a narrative event.

Question 6

What did they find were the similarities between adults and children?

Answer 6

when the materials were studies beforehand, saccades improved retrieval rates and decreased the amount of false memories

Question 7

What were the differences between adults and children?

Answer 7

when the materials were not studied beforehand the children had no reduction in false memories unlike adults

Question 8

What does this age difference suggest?

Answer 8

this phenomenom is not developmental due to the fact both groups performed the same when studied, but differently when unstudied.