Exploring the accuracy of musical tempo memory: The effects of reproduction method, reference tempo, and musical expertise
This study therefore aimed to investigate musical tempo memory accuracy and the effects of reference tempo, reproduction method, musical expertise, and their interaction. A sample of 403 individuals with varying levels of musical training participated in the experimental online study, including nonmusicians, amateur musicians, and professional musicians. Participants were tasked with reproducing the tempos of 19 popular pop/rock songs using two methods: tempo tapping and adjusting the tempo of the audio file based on the previously tapped tempo. Results from multilevel models revealed overall high accuracy in tempo memory,...
Source: Memory and Cognition - March 20, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Julia Vigl Friederike Koehler Heike Henning Source Type: research
The visual familiarity effect on attentional working memory maintenance
Mem Cognit. 2024 Mar 19. doi: 10.3758/s13421-024-01548-1. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAttentional refreshing has been described as an attention-based, domain-general maintenance mechanism in working memory. It is thought to operate via focusing executive attention on information held in working memory, protecting it from temporal decay and interference. Although attentional refreshing has attracted a lot of research, its functioning is still debated. At least one conception of refreshing supposes that it relies on semantic long-term memory representations to reconstruct working memory traces. Although investigations in t...
Source: Memory and Cognition - March 20, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Philippe Schneider Evie Vergauwe Val érie Camos Source Type: research
Exploring the accuracy of musical tempo memory: The effects of reproduction method, reference tempo, and musical expertise
This study therefore aimed to investigate musical tempo memory accuracy and the effects of reference tempo, reproduction method, musical expertise, and their interaction. A sample of 403 individuals with varying levels of musical training participated in the experimental online study, including nonmusicians, amateur musicians, and professional musicians. Participants were tasked with reproducing the tempos of 19 popular pop/rock songs using two methods: tempo tapping and adjusting the tempo of the audio file based on the previously tapped tempo. Results from multilevel models revealed overall high accuracy in tempo memory,...
Source: Memory and Cognition - March 20, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Julia Vigl Friederike Koehler Heike Henning Source Type: research
The visual familiarity effect on attentional working memory maintenance
Mem Cognit. 2024 Mar 19. doi: 10.3758/s13421-024-01548-1. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAttentional refreshing has been described as an attention-based, domain-general maintenance mechanism in working memory. It is thought to operate via focusing executive attention on information held in working memory, protecting it from temporal decay and interference. Although attentional refreshing has attracted a lot of research, its functioning is still debated. At least one conception of refreshing supposes that it relies on semantic long-term memory representations to reconstruct working memory traces. Although investigations in t...
Source: Memory and Cognition - March 20, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Philippe Schneider Evie Vergauwe Val érie Camos Source Type: research
The limited memory of value following value directed encoding
Mem Cognit. 2024 Mar 18. doi: 10.3758/s13421-024-01550-7. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTItems associated with higher values during encoding are later recognized and recalled better than are lower valued items. During recall paradigms, these value directed encoding (VDE) effects heavily depend upon learned strategies acquired during repeated testing with earnings feedback. However, because VDE effects also occur in single test recognition designs, precluding such learning, it has been suggested that high value may automatically induce good encoding. We tested this by manipulating encoding instructions (Experiments 1a and 1b...
Source: Memory and Cognition - March 19, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Gizem Filiz Ian G Dobbins Source Type: research
The effects of non-diagnostic information on confidence and decision making
Mem Cognit. 2024 Mar 15. doi: 10.3758/s13421-024-01535-6. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMany decision-making tasks are characterized by a combination of diagnostic and non-diagnostic information, yet models of responding and confidence almost exclusively focus on the contribution of diagnostic information (e.g., evidence associated with stimulus discriminability), largely ignoring the contribution of non-diagnostic information. An exception is Baranski and Petrusic's Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24(3), 929-945, (1998) doubt-scaling model, which predicts a negative relationship betwe...
Source: Memory and Cognition - March 15, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Amelia T Kohl James D Sauer Matthew A Palmer Jasmin Brooks Andrew Heathcote Source Type: research
The saving enhanced memory effect can be observed when only a subset of items are saved
Mem Cognit. 2024 Mar 13. doi: 10.3758/s13421-024-01545-4. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSaving one list of words, such as on a computer or by writing them down, can improve a person's ability to learn and remember a second list of words that are not saved. This phenomenon, known as the saving enhanced memory effect, is typically observed by comparing the recall of nonsaved items when other items are saved versus when they are not saved. In past research, the effect has been shown to occur when participants save an entire list before learning a new list. In the current research, we examined whether the effect can be observe...
Source: Memory and Cognition - March 14, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Craig Fellers Benjamin C Storm Source Type: research
Short-term retention of words as a function of encoding depth
Mem Cognit. 2024 Mar 12. doi: 10.3758/s13421-024-01546-3. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe traditional short- and long-term storage view of information processing and the levels-of-processing view both discuss the forgetting of information over time. In the traditional stage view, there is loss of at least poorly encoded information across several seconds when the information cannot be rehearsed (e.g., Ricker et al., 2020, Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46, 60-76). In the levels-of-processing approach, information that is encoded in a shallow manner is lost more quickly over time than deeply-encoded information (Craik &...
Source: Memory and Cognition - March 13, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Cayden O Lawrence Dominic Guitard Nelson Cowan Source Type: research
Obtaining semantic-to-autobiographical memory priming on the vigilance task with non-verbal cues
Mem Cognit. 2024 Mar 13. doi: 10.3758/s13421-024-01547-2. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTRecent research has shown that the activation of semantic memories leads to the activation of autobiographical memories. Known as semantic-to-autobiographical memory priming, this form of priming has been demonstrated to prime involuntary and voluntary autobiographical memories with a wide variety of different primes (i.e., various verbal and non-verbal stimuli). However, only verbal cues have been used in the memory measures, leaving open the question of how non-verbal cues might function. Our goal in the current study was to show that...
Source: Memory and Cognition - March 13, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: John H Mace Kendra L Ostermeier Source Type: research
Short-term retention of words as a function of encoding depth
Mem Cognit. 2024 Mar 12. doi: 10.3758/s13421-024-01546-3. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe traditional short- and long-term storage view of information processing and the levels-of-processing view both discuss the forgetting of information over time. In the traditional stage view, there is loss of at least poorly encoded information across several seconds when the information cannot be rehearsed (e.g., Ricker et al., 2020, Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46, 60-76). In the levels-of-processing approach, information that is encoded in a shallow manner is lost more quickly over time than deeply-encoded information (Craik &...
Source: Memory and Cognition - March 13, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Cayden O Lawrence Dominic Guitard Nelson Cowan Source Type: research
Distributional analyses reveal the polymorphic nature of the Stroop interference effect: It's about (response) time
Mem Cognit. 2024 Mar 11. doi: 10.3758/s13421-024-01538-3. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe study addressed the still-open issue of whether semantic (in addition to response) conflict does indeed contribute to Stroop interference (which along with facilitation contributes to the overall Stroop effect also known as Congruency effect). To this end, semantic conflict was examined across the entire response time (RT) distribution (as opposed to mean RTs). Three (out of four) reported experiments, along with cross-experimental analyses, revealed that semantic conflict was absent in the participants' faster responses. This resul...
Source: Memory and Cognition - March 12, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: L éa M Martinon Ludovic Ferrand Mariana Burca Nabil Hasshim Dounia Lakhzoum Benjamin A Parris Laetitia Silvert Maria Augustinova Source Type: research
