Abstract
We investigated effects of the meaningfulness and regularity of forms on visual memory. In the experiment, 40 subjects performed a recognition memory task with confidence ratings. According to a statistical distortion rule, all stimuli were generated from original figures with high-or low-meaningfulness and with bilateral or n-fold symmetry. The obtained interaction between figural features and their meaningfulness implies that the meaningfulness and regularity of forms complementarily facilitate the normalization on visual memory.
