Experimental design. (A) Study timeline. During session 1, participants performed encoding followed by an immediate cued recall test. During session 2, participants performed a second cued recall test. (VVIQ) Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire. (B) Illustration of the encoding task. During the nonintegrative block, participants were instructed to generate separate mental images for the two items in as much vivid detail as possible and not to imagine the items together or interacting with each other in any way. During the integrative block, participants were told to generate a mental image that combined the two items into a single visual representation in as much vivid detail as possible. (C) During the cued recall tasks, participants were shown the first word in the pair and were required to recall the second word. (Images in B use assets from Freepik.com.)
