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100For an ongoing study of the role of image qualities in recognition memory, participants rated how much they would like common objects displayed as a photo, drawing or word. They later identified words for objects that had previously been shown in any format. Liking rating was significantly associated with recall (p < .001) in preliminary results, while animacy was not (p > .4).POSTER 39LINKING VARIATION IN ADULT VOCABULARY SIZE WITH LEXICAL NETWORK ORGANIZATIONDONNAN GRAVELLE (THE COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND & CUNY GRADUATE CENTER), PATRICIA J. BROOKS (THE COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND & CUNY GRADUATE CENTER) Variation in vocabulary knowledge may influence lexical organization. Using responses from a repeated free association task, we derived networks for adults with high vs. low vocabulary knowledge (n = 22 per group, based on PPVT scores). The 'low' network had fewer communities and greater clustering than the 'high' network, suggesting less differentiation. The 'high' network showed greater connectivity based on part-of-speech, while the 'low' network showed greater connectivity based on age-of-acquisition, concreteness, and word frequency.POSTER 40LOW DETAIL VS HIGH DETAIL IMAGES IN VISUAL MEMORYVICTOR FLORES (RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY), HYUNGJUN CHOI (RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY) This study investigates the interaction of level of detail (low vs. high) and color (or no color) on visual memory in brief stimuli presentation. The study contains five groups, participants in groups 1-4 were shown 15 image types using the RSVP method. Group 5 participants were shown 20 images combined from group 1-4 tests. The study finds color does not have a significant effect, however detail has a main effect in visual memory.POSTER 41MANIPULATING MEMORY: THE EFFECTS OF GESTURES AND POST-EVENT MISINFORMATION ON EYEWITNESS TESTIMONYCAROLINE CMIELEWSKI (MARIST COLLEGE), KIMERY LEVERING (MARIST COLLEGE) In this study, participants watched a crime video and then viewed a co-witness account of the crime which included correct and misinformed elements. They were then presented with questions about those same elements, each performed with either a correct or misleading gesture. Both co-witness misinformation and misleading gestures lead to increased errors, but the combination reduced performance most. Previously studied separately, these results show the effect of both verbal and non-verbal information on eyewitness memory.POSTER 42MAPPING SIMULTANEOUS DISAPPEARANCE DYNAMICS IN MOTION-INDUCED BLINDNESSVISHNU SONI (UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AT MANCHESTER), JOEY PLANCHET (UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AT MANCHESTER), HAZEL KANE (UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AT MANCHESTER), GABRIELLA AMIRTHAM (UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AT MANCHESTER), JULIANNE SMITH (UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AT MANCHESTER), JOHN SPARROW (UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AT MANCHESTER) Motion-Induced Blindness (MIB) is a visual illusion where salient targets cyclically disappear and reappear when surrounded by a moving visual pattern. Previous investigations suggest that multiple targets often disappear simultaneously than individually. Concurrently, effects of the target's location on target disappearance remain unclear. Thus, we investigate how spatial and group factors shape MIB disappearances, focusing on both target location and the dynamics of simultaneous disappearances involving 2, 3, or 4 targets.POSTER 43METACOGNITION AS AN EXPLANATION FOR THE ADOPTION OF CAM BELIEFS AND USE.BRADEN WEBSTER (SUNY ONEONTA), ERIN MADISONHANDEL (SUNY ONEONTA), ANNETTE MACKAY (SUNY ONEONTA) While CAM use is often benign, it has the potential for negative consequences. The goal of this study is to assess a person's CAM use as it relates to metacognitive ability. Using EFA, metacognition and other factors like trust in sources of information will be used to typify different CAM users. If metacognition can in part predict CAM use, metacognitive training may be a good avenue to encourage use of more reliable medical information.100