You might try the Conjugate Lateral Eye Movement (CLEM) research by Paul
Bakan in the 1970s(?). His claim was a little different -- it was that
one moves one's eyes to the left when trying to recall a "right brain"
item (image, music, etc.) and that one moves one's eyes to the right
when attempting to retrieve a "left brain" (textual, logical) item. Like
most of you, I am deeply dubious of the left/right dichotomy, especially
connected to things like eye movements, but my understanding is that he
got consistent results (even if you might prefer a different
interpretation of why).
Chris Green
York U.
Toronto
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Donnelly, Michael wrote:
Hi TIPsters:
This question is for those of you with a better memory than mine about
the memory literature.
I have a student who is conducting a research methods project based on
that oft-repeated claim that looking up while you try to remember
something improves recall. When she came to me with that idea, I could
recall having heard it myself at some point, as could my wife (who has a
background in memory research), but when I started doing some searches
online with her, I could find nary a paper or chapter that documents
that claim, anywhere.
So here are my questions for you:
1. Have you ever heard this claim, or some other version of it?
2. Do you have an idea what the source of this claim is?
3. Are you aware of any prior attempts to put this claim to empirical
test?
She has some interesting data, which suggest that beliefs about the
claim may be partly correct, but in a way that I will not reveal here,
as we may decide to create a larger scale study for her senior project
based on this work.
As always, references to published work would be most welcome.
Note that this claim is about upward gaze, not side to side eye
movements, which is a different thing I think, and there are lots of
papers out there about the side-to-side eye movements and memory, owing
to the high interest that exists related to EMDR (whether or not the
claims of it's practitioners are correct).
Thanks in advance,
Michael Donnelly, PhD
UW-Stout/CNERVE
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