The Japanese Journal of Psychology
Online ISSN : 1884-1082
Print ISSN : 0021-5236
ISSN-L : 0021-5236
Boundary extension as the effects of scene context on picture-memory
Takahiro OharaOsamu Kokubun
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2002 Volume 73 Issue 2 Pages 121-130

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Boundary extension is a picture-memory phenomenon that viewers remember seeing wider-angle view than was actually depicted in a photograph. To explain boundary extension, Intraub, Bender and Mangels (1992) proposed the scene context hypothesis that boundary extension is due to viewer's expectance of scene continuity outside the camera's field of view. The present study tested this hypothesis. Experiment 1 replicated the phenomenon of boundary extension. In Experiment 2, a retention interval did not have much effects on this distortion. Experiment 3 revealed that the occurrence of boundary extension was affected by activation of scenic representation that would have existed outside the picture frame. These results supported the scene context hypothesis.
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