Introduction

Imagine your third grade classroom, or the doctor’s office you visited last. This task is probably not very difficult at all. You can probably come up with an image in your mind’s eye very rapidly. How do we do this? Most psychologists agree that humans have networks of cognitive schemas that connect related ideas, pictures, words, sounds, and even smells, and that these schemas help memory either by cueing actual memories, or by helping us fill in the blanks with material related to what we are recalling. In the present experiment, we will explore the possible role of memory schemas in visual long-term memory.