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phenomenon > memory phenomenon > boundary extension illusion

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boundary extension illusion  

Definition(s)

  • Memory distortion when a picture or a photograph is remembered with a greater extent than actually present, as if the subject was using in his memory a wider angle of view, going as far as inserting new items in the new created space (Intraud & Richardson, 1989).

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Synonym(s)

  • boundary extension effect

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Bainbridge, W. A., & Baker, C. I. (2020). Boundaries extend and contract in scene memory depending on image properties. Current Biology, 30(3), 537-543.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.12.004

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Blazhenkova, O. (2017). Boundary extension in face processing. I-Perception, 8(5), 2041669517724808. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669517724808

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Intraub, H., & Richardson, M. (1989). Wide-angle memories of close-up scenes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 15(2), 179–187. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.15.2.179

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Ménétrier, E., Didierjean, A., & Marmèche, É. (2011). Le système visuel traite-t-il les photographies comme des fenêtres ouvertes sur le monde? L'Année Psychologique, 111(4), 753–773. https://doi.org/10.4074/S0003503311004064

    [Study type: literature review / Access: open]
  • • van den Bos, L. M. E. C., Benjamins, J. S., & Postma, A. (2020). Episodic and semantic memory processes in the boundary extension effect: An investigation using the remember/know paradigm. Acta Psychologica, 211, 103190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103190

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

Dataset citation(s)

  • • Lukavsky, J., & Klinger, V. (2019, November 12). Boundary extension in the internal parts of the images. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/M3XPE

Editorial note

  • In Intraub and Richardson's (1989) experiment, participants study 20 photographs, for 15 seconds each, depicting a main object or a group of objects. After the photographs are presented, subjects draw them from memory. The results show that participants tend to draw the objects smaller than in the studied scenes, thus filling the space with new elements that might have been present if the scenes had been presented with a wider viewing angle. Furthermore, a phenomenon of boundary contraction has been observed when the visual scene contains several dispersed objects, whereas boundary extension illusion occurs when the visual scene contains a few central objects (Bainbridge & Baker, 2020).

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