Perseveration on cognitive strategies
Mem Cognit. 2023 Oct 24. doi: 10.3758/s13421-023-01475-7. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTo acquire and process information, performers can frequently rely on both internal and extended cognitive strategies. However, after becoming acquainted with two strategies, performers in previous studies exhibited a pronounced behavioral preference for just one strategy, which we refer to as perseveration. What is the origin of such perseveration? Previous research suggests that a prime reason for cognitive strategy choice is performance: Perseveration could reflect the preference for a superior strategy as determined by accurately mo...
Source: Memory and Cognition - October 24, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Patrick P Weis Wilfried Kunde Source Type: research
The influence of repeated study and repeated testing on the testing effect and the transfer effect over time
In this study, participants studied sentences that described various episodes, then tested a half subset of the original sentences under three conditions (RP, RS, control). After retention intervals of 10 min, 1 day and 7 days, they recalled all of the information in the sentences. The results showed that the testing effect was enhanced by repeated study or repeated testing, while the transfer effect occurred only after both repeated study and repeated testing. Furthermore, repeated study or repeated testing slowed down the forgetting of retrieved items, while the forgetting of non-retrieved items occurred after both repea...
Source: Memory and Cognition - October 24, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Lingwei Wang Jiongjiong Yang Source Type: research
An experimental approach: Investigating the directive function of autobiographical memory
Mem Cognit. 2023 Oct 24. doi: 10.3758/s13421-023-01480-w. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWhy do we have autobiographical memory and how is it useful? Researchers have proposed a directive function; our experiences guide our behavior, particularly when faced with an open-ended problem. Two experiments (one between-participant and one mixed design) were therefore conducted to test whether success autobiographical memories - any experience when the participant felt successful and competent - are helpful for generating solutions to problem scenarios. One research aim was to experimentally test the directive function as current ...
Source: Memory and Cognition - October 24, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Nicky Duff Karen Salmon Anne Macaskill Source Type: research
Delayed onset facilitates subsequent retrieval of words during language comprehension
Mem Cognit. 2023 Oct 24. doi: 10.3758/s13421-023-01479-3. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPrior research has shown that during language comprehension, memory representations associated with premodified words (e.g., the injured and dangerous bear) are retrieved faster from memory than those associated with unmodified words (e.g., the bear). Current explanations attribute this effect to the semantic richness of modified words. However, it is not clear whether the presence of modifying words are in fact necessary for a retrieval benefit. Premodifiers necessarily delay the onset of the target word (i.e., bear), and temporal dela...
Source: Memory and Cognition - October 24, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Hossein Karimi Michele Diaz Eva Wittenberg Source Type: research
Perseveration on cognitive strategies
Mem Cognit. 2023 Oct 24. doi: 10.3758/s13421-023-01475-7. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTo acquire and process information, performers can frequently rely on both internal and extended cognitive strategies. However, after becoming acquainted with two strategies, performers in previous studies exhibited a pronounced behavioral preference for just one strategy, which we refer to as perseveration. What is the origin of such perseveration? Previous research suggests that a prime reason for cognitive strategy choice is performance: Perseveration could reflect the preference for a superior strategy as determined by accurately mo...
Source: Memory and Cognition - October 24, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Patrick P Weis Wilfried Kunde Source Type: research
The influence of repeated study and repeated testing on the testing effect and the transfer effect over time
In this study, participants studied sentences that described various episodes, then tested a half subset of the original sentences under three conditions (RP, RS, control). After retention intervals of 10 min, 1 day and 7 days, they recalled all of the information in the sentences. The results showed that the testing effect was enhanced by repeated study or repeated testing, while the transfer effect occurred only after both repeated study and repeated testing. Furthermore, repeated study or repeated testing slowed down the forgetting of retrieved items, while the forgetting of non-retrieved items occurred after both repea...
Source: Memory and Cognition - October 24, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Lingwei Wang Jiongjiong Yang Source Type: research
An experimental approach: Investigating the directive function of autobiographical memory
Mem Cognit. 2023 Oct 24. doi: 10.3758/s13421-023-01480-w. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWhy do we have autobiographical memory and how is it useful? Researchers have proposed a directive function; our experiences guide our behavior, particularly when faced with an open-ended problem. Two experiments (one between-participant and one mixed design) were therefore conducted to test whether success autobiographical memories - any experience when the participant felt successful and competent - are helpful for generating solutions to problem scenarios. One research aim was to experimentally test the directive function as current ...
Source: Memory and Cognition - October 24, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Nicky Duff Karen Salmon Anne Macaskill Source Type: research
Delayed onset facilitates subsequent retrieval of words during language comprehension
Mem Cognit. 2023 Oct 24. doi: 10.3758/s13421-023-01479-3. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPrior research has shown that during language comprehension, memory representations associated with premodified words (e.g., the injured and dangerous bear) are retrieved faster from memory than those associated with unmodified words (e.g., the bear). Current explanations attribute this effect to the semantic richness of modified words. However, it is not clear whether the presence of modifying words are in fact necessary for a retrieval benefit. Premodifiers necessarily delay the onset of the target word (i.e., bear), and temporal dela...
Source: Memory and Cognition - October 24, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Hossein Karimi Michele Diaz Eva Wittenberg Source Type: research
Sequential syntactic knowledge supports item but not order recall in verbal working memory
We presented lists with adjective-noun pairs for immediate serial recall, the adjectives being in regular or irregular position relative to the nouns. We observed increased recall performance when adjectives occurred in regular position; this effect was observed for item recall but not order recall scores. We propose an integration of verbal WM and syntactic processing models to account for this finding by assuming that the impact of syntactic knowledge on serial-order WM recall is indirect and mediated via syntax-dependent item-retrieval processes.PMID:37872468 | DOI:10.3758/s13421-023-01476-6 (Source: Memory and Cognition)
Source: Memory and Cognition - October 23, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Pauline Querella Steve Majerus Source Type: research
Mental association of time and valence
Mem Cognit. 2023 Oct 16. doi: 10.3758/s13421-023-01473-9. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFive experiments investigated the association between time and valence. In the first experiment, participants classified temporal expressions (e.g., past, future) and positively or negatively connotated words (e.g., glorious, nasty) based on temporal reference or valence. They responded slower and made more errors in the mismatched condition (positive/past mapped to one hand, negative/future to the other) compared with the matched condition (positive/future to one hand, negative/past to the other hand). Experiment 2 confirmed the genera...
Source: Memory and Cognition - October 16, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Rolf Ulrich Irmgard de la Vega Verena Eikmeier Fritz G ünther Barbara Kaup Source Type: research
