Benefits of multinomial processing tree models with discrete and continuous variables in memory research: an alternative modeling proposal to Juola et al. (2019)
Mem Cognit. 2024 Jan 4. doi: 10.3758/s13421-023-01501-8. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSignal detection theory (SDT) and two-high threshold models (2HT) are often used to analyze accuracy data in recognition memory paradigms. However, when reaction times (RTs) and/or confidence levels (CLs) are also measured, they usually are analyzed separately or not at all as dependent variables (DVs). We propose a new approach to include these variables based on multinomial processing tree models for discrete and continuous variables (MPT-DC) with the aim to compare fits of SDT and 2HT models. Using Juola et al.'s (2019, Memory & C...
Source: Memory and Cognition - January 4, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Anah í Gutkin Manuel Suero Juan Botella James F Juola Source Type: research
Drawing as an efficient encoding tool in younger but not always older adults: The case of associative memory
Mem Cognit. 2024 Jan 4. doi: 10.3758/s13421-023-01503-6. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEpisodic memory strongly declines in healthy aging, at least partly because of reduced abilities to create and remember associations (associative memory) and to use efficient memory strategies. Several studies have shown that drawing the to-be-remembered material is a reliable encoding tool to enhance memory of individual items (item memory) because it simultaneously integrates elaborative, pictorial, and motoric processes. These processes in isolation can enhance associative memory in older adults. Nevertheless, their simultaneous impac...
Source: Memory and Cognition - January 4, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Rebecca Ovalle-Fresa Corinna S Martarelli Source Type: research
Collective overclaiming is related to collective narcissism and numeracy
Mem Cognit. 2024 Jan 2. doi: 10.3758/s13421-023-01504-5. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWhen asked to estimate how much their state or nation has contributed to history, people typically provide unreasonably large estimates, claiming that their group has contributed much more to history than nongroup members would estimate, demonstrating collective overclaiming. Why does such overclaiming occur? In the current study we examined factors that might predict collective overclaiming. Participants from 12 U.S. states estimated how much their home state contributed to U.S. history, completed measures of collective narcissism and n...
Source: Memory and Cognition - January 3, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Adam L Putnam Jeremy K Yamashiro Eylul Tekin Henry L Roediger Source Type: research
Keeping track of time: Horizontal spatial biases for hours, days, and months
Mem Cognit. 2023 Dec 28. doi: 10.3758/s13421-023-01508-1. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn many Western cultures, the processing of temporal words related to the past and to the future is associated with left and right space, respectively - a phenomenon known as the horizontal Mental Time Line (MTL). While this mapping is apparently quite ubiquitous, its regularity and consistency across different types of temporal concepts remain to be determined. Moreover, it is unclear whether such spatial mappings are an essential and early constituent of concept activation. In the present study, we used words denoting time units at di...
Source: Memory and Cognition - December 28, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Anastasia Malyshevskaya Alex Miklashevsky Martin H Fischer Christoph Scheepers Yury Shtyrov Andriy Myachykov Source Type: research
Listen up, kids! How mind wandering affects immediate and delayed memory in children
This study is the first to demonstrate the impact of mind wandering on delayed memory retention in children. Results suggest that exploring mind wandering in the foundational years of schooling could provide the necessary empirical foundation for the development of practical interventions geared toward detecting and refocusing lapses of attention in educational contexts.PMID:38151674 | DOI:10.3758/s13421-023-01509-0 (Source: Memory and Cognition)
Source: Memory and Cognition - December 27, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Jessica Cherry Teresa McCormack Agnieszka J Graham Source Type: research
Lexico-syntactic constraints influence verbal working memory in sentence-like lists
Mem Cognit. 2023 Dec 21. doi: 10.3758/s13421-023-01496-2. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe test predictions from the language emergent perspective on verbal working memory that lexico-syntactic constraints should support both item and order memory. In natural language, long-term knowledge of lexico-syntactic patterns involving part of speech, verb biases, and noun animacy support language comprehension and production. In three experiments, participants were presented with randomly generated dative-like sentences or lists in which part of speech, verb biases, and animacy of a single word were manipulated. Participants were ...
Source: Memory and Cognition - December 22, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Steven C Schwering Cassandra L Jacobs Janelle Montemayor Maryellen C MacDonald Source Type: research
