The influence of sentence focus on mental simulation: A possible cause of ACE instability
Mem Cognit. 2024 Apr 1. doi: 10.3758/s13421-024-01549-0. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTRecent studies have revealed the instability of the action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE). The current study was designed to demonstrate the hypothesis that the instability of the ACE may be attributed to the instability of focused information in a sentence. A pilot study indicated that the focused information of sentences was relatively stable in the sentence-picture verification task but exhibited significant interindividual variability in the action-sentence compatibility paradigm in previous studies. Experiments 1 and 2 examined...
Source: Memory and Cognition - April 1, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Hua Jin Guangfang Zhou Xiang Li Source Type: research
Activated long-term memory and visual working memory during hybrid visual search: Effects on target memory search and distractor memory
Mem Cognit. 2024 Mar 25. doi: 10.3758/s13421-024-01556-1. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn hybrid visual search, observers must maintain multiple target templates and subsequently search for any one of those targets. If the number of potential target templates exceeds visual working memory (VWM) capacity, then the target templates are assumed to be maintained in activated long-term memory (aLTM). Observers must search the array for potential targets (visual search), as well as search through memory (target memory search). Increasing the target memory set size reduces accuracy, increases search response times (RT), and incr...
Source: Memory and Cognition - March 26, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Stephanie M Saltzmann Brandon Eich Katherine C Moen Melissa R Beck Source Type: research
I remember it now, so I'll remember it later: Working memory strength guides predictions for long-term memory performance
Mem Cognit. 2024 Mar 25. doi: 10.3758/s13421-023-01514-3. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTJudgments of learning (JOLs) are assumed to be made inferentially, based on cues. This cue-utilization approach substituted the theory that memory strength guides JOLs. The rejection of this theory ignores the existence of two memory systems: working memory (WM), which holds representations immediately accessible, and long-term memory (LTM), which is a permanent store. By manipulating and measuring WM strength, we tested a revised version of the memory-strength theory in which JOLs are guided by WM representations. In Experiment 1, part...
Source: Memory and Cognition - March 26, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Julia Krasnoff Alessandra S Souza Source Type: research
Semantic Stroop interference is modulated by the availability of executive resources: Insights from delta-plot analyses and cognitive load manipulation
Mem Cognit. 2024 Mar 26. doi: 10.3758/s13421-024-01552-5. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe investigated whether, during visual word recognition, semantic processing is modulated by attentional control mechanisms directed at matching semantic information with task-relevant goals. In previous research, we analyzed the semantic Stroop interference as a function of response latency (delta-plot analyses) and found that this phenomenon mainly occurs in the slowest responses. Here, we investigated whether this pattern is due to reduced ability to proactively maintain the task goal in these slowest trials. In two pairs of experime...
Source: Memory and Cognition - March 26, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Simone Sulpizio Giacomo Spinelli Michele Scaltritti Source Type: research
Object-based attention during scene perception elicits boundary contraction in memory
In this study, one group of participants (N = 36) memorized 15 scenes while searching for targets, while a separate group (N = 36) just memorized the scenes. Both groups then drew the scenes from memory with as much object and spatial detail as they could remember. We asked online workers to provide ratings of boundary transformations in the drawings, as well as how many objects they contained and the precision of remembered object size and location. We found that search condition drawings showed significantly greater boundary contraction than drawings of the same scenes in the memorize condition. Search drawings were sign...
Source: Memory and Cognition - March 26, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Elizabeth H Hall Joy J Geng Source Type: research
Activated long-term memory and visual working memory during hybrid visual search: Effects on target memory search and distractor memory
Mem Cognit. 2024 Mar 25. doi: 10.3758/s13421-024-01556-1. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn hybrid visual search, observers must maintain multiple target templates and subsequently search for any one of those targets. If the number of potential target templates exceeds visual working memory (VWM) capacity, then the target templates are assumed to be maintained in activated long-term memory (aLTM). Observers must search the array for potential targets (visual search), as well as search through memory (target memory search). Increasing the target memory set size reduces accuracy, increases search response times (RT), and incr...
Source: Memory and Cognition - March 26, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Stephanie M Saltzmann Brandon Eich Katherine C Moen Melissa R Beck Source Type: research
I remember it now, so I'll remember it later: Working memory strength guides predictions for long-term memory performance
Mem Cognit. 2024 Mar 25. doi: 10.3758/s13421-023-01514-3. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTJudgments of learning (JOLs) are assumed to be made inferentially, based on cues. This cue-utilization approach substituted the theory that memory strength guides JOLs. The rejection of this theory ignores the existence of two memory systems: working memory (WM), which holds representations immediately accessible, and long-term memory (LTM), which is a permanent store. By manipulating and measuring WM strength, we tested a revised version of the memory-strength theory in which JOLs are guided by WM representations. In Experiment 1, part...
Source: Memory and Cognition - March 26, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Julia Krasnoff Alessandra S Souza Source Type: research
Semantic Stroop interference is modulated by the availability of executive resources: Insights from delta-plot analyses and cognitive load manipulation
Mem Cognit. 2024 Mar 26. doi: 10.3758/s13421-024-01552-5. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe investigated whether, during visual word recognition, semantic processing is modulated by attentional control mechanisms directed at matching semantic information with task-relevant goals. In previous research, we analyzed the semantic Stroop interference as a function of response latency (delta-plot analyses) and found that this phenomenon mainly occurs in the slowest responses. Here, we investigated whether this pattern is due to reduced ability to proactively maintain the task goal in these slowest trials. In two pairs of experime...
Source: Memory and Cognition - March 26, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Simone Sulpizio Giacomo Spinelli Michele Scaltritti Source Type: research
Object-based attention during scene perception elicits boundary contraction in memory
In this study, one group of participants (N = 36) memorized 15 scenes while searching for targets, while a separate group (N = 36) just memorized the scenes. Both groups then drew the scenes from memory with as much object and spatial detail as they could remember. We asked online workers to provide ratings of boundary transformations in the drawings, as well as how many objects they contained and the precision of remembered object size and location. We found that search condition drawings showed significantly greater boundary contraction than drawings of the same scenes in the memorize condition. Search drawings were sign...
Source: Memory and Cognition - March 26, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Elizabeth H Hall Joy J Geng Source Type: research
Activated long-term memory and visual working memory during hybrid visual search: Effects on target memory search and distractor memory
Mem Cognit. 2024 Mar 25. doi: 10.3758/s13421-024-01556-1. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn hybrid visual search, observers must maintain multiple target templates and subsequently search for any one of those targets. If the number of potential target templates exceeds visual working memory (VWM) capacity, then the target templates are assumed to be maintained in activated long-term memory (aLTM). Observers must search the array for potential targets (visual search), as well as search through memory (target memory search). Increasing the target memory set size reduces accuracy, increases search response times (RT), and incr...
Source: Memory and Cognition - March 26, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Stephanie M Saltzmann Brandon Eich Katherine C Moen Melissa R Beck Source Type: research
