Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

We examined how people remember ’where’ a certain event happened given the time and date of the event (i.e., memoryfor where). We especially focused on the kinds of information people use when trying to retrieve their memory for where.In order to increase ecological validity, we used experience sampling technology. In the task, participants watched a videothat depicted a 3rd person’s life for a month period, which was generated by using the 3rd person’s experience samplingdata. Then, participants were cued with a certain time and were asked where the person was at that time as well as howconfident they were with their response. Using a conditional logit model, we found that, temporal and spatial distanceswere the main predictors of participants’ choice. We also found that generic knowledge about one’s life and repeatingevents (or locations) also affect participants retrieval of memory for where.