Great Expectations: Evaluating the Role of Object-Color Expectations on Visual Memory

Previous research has shown that category expectations can improve recall of information from visual memory, by reducing absolute average error (e.g. Huttenlocher, Hedges, & Duncan, 1991; Hemmer & Steyvers, 2009). In most of this work, category expectations, on average, produce improvements, particularly when expectations directly align with studied information (e.g. using category knowledge of ‘red’ to help recall shades of ‘red’). However, a...