Individuals received 4 or 10 pieces of information while walking a short or long distance. Following the walk, participants recalled the presented information and estimated the distance walked and time spent walking. Recall was affected by the amount of information presented while distance and time estimates were affected by walk distance. Contrary to the hypothesis, information load did not affect distance or time estimates.
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