There was an overall trend for left-to-right spatial flow to increase recall, driven mainly by poor-performing female participants, who performed better overall in left-to-right spatial type trials relative to unstructured trials, but did not show this same benefit for right-to-left trials.
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When subjects were asked to recall a very long string of locations, they showed a trend to better recall the initial information if the spatial flow was from left-to-right, and final information if spatial flow was right-to-left.