The effect of strategies and contexts on memory for movement patterns

Two experiments on memory for movement patterns examined possible motor asp ects of this memory type. None of the experiments found any evidence for mo tor effects. The first experiment showed lower memory with induced motor st rategies than with any of the other induced strategies. The second experime nt demonstrated stronger context effects under retrieval than under encodin g conditions. The results are discussed in terms of functional and structur al conceptions of episodic short-term memory of motor information.