Influences of context on memory for routes

Possible influences of contexts on memory for routes are investigated. Rout e knowledge was established by learning a route which was presented on a co mputer screen. Activation of knowledge of items along the route was tested. The main goal was to decide whether the surrounding context in the learnin g and the test phase has an effect on memory for routes. Beyond general con text effects, we looked for a possible indirect or mediated context effect. Such a mediate context effect would occur, when memory improves also in ca ses where context and the to-be-remembered items are separated by a spatial distance. The results reported here provide evidence for immediate context effects. A mediate context effect is not very strongly supported.