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Subjects made repeated magnitude estimates of the lengths of lines or the areas of irregular polygons either from memory or while viewing the stimuli. As had been found previously for cartographic distance and area (Kerst & Howard, 1978), memory exponents approximated the square of perceptual exponents. Memory exponents differed for length and area, which suggests that more than ordinal information is preserved in memory. These results suggest important similarities between perceptual and memorial processes.
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Since the contribution of the two authors was equivalent, the order of authorship is arbitrary. The authors acknowledge Brian McLaughlin for computer program development, Mari Grant for assistance in data analysis, and James Favret and Martha Sanders for data collection. This research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Army Research Institute to Catholic University.
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Kerst, S.M., Howard, J.H. Magnitude estimates of perceived and remembered length and area. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 22, 517–520 (1984). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333895
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