The Larger The Image, The Better We Remember It
JANUARY 27, 2022| SpeedPro Akron NorthCategories
BlogResearchers find that the large images are better remembered (1.5 times more) than the small images.
Dr Sharon Gilaie-Dotan, of Bar-Ilan University’s School of Optometry and Vision Science and Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Israel, led a study to determine whether large images are better remembered than small ones. 182 subjects participated in seven different experiments; researchers found that the large images were better remembered (1.5 times more) than the small images.
Was this result determined by size, or amount of detail?
The researchers examined whether large, blurred images are better etched in memory than clear, small images. Even if the where the large images contained the same details as the small images, researchers found that participants remembered the large, blurry images better than the small, clear images.
They also found that most images were better remembered when they were presented as bigger relative to when they were presented as smaller.
“In areas of the brain that represent the retinal image, more resources will be directed to processing large images than to processing small images because the processing is determined by the area of the retina that the image stimulates,” said Dr Gilaie-Dotan.