MemoryPub Date : 2024-12-05DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2434211
Mollika Roy, Adrian R Willoughby, Shamsul Haque
{"title":"Cultural life scripts as schema: recalling schema congruent and incongruent events from a hypothetical life story.","authors":"Mollika Roy, Adrian R Willoughby, Shamsul Haque","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2434211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2434211","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study, involving 34 Malaysian adults, investigated if the memory of cultural life script congruent and incongruent events was better than life script neutral events. We created a 1500-word hypothetical life story of a Malaysian girl comprising six life script congruent, six life script incongruent, and six life script neutral events. Half of those events were high-frequent, and half were low-frequent life script events. Participants first read the story on a computer screen and then completed a free recall test ten minutes later and again one week later. They recalled as many details as they could from the 18 events presented in the story. The results revealed that participants retrieved more information from the life script incongruent events than from life script congruent events at both recall points. The memory for high-frequent life script events was better than for low-frequent and life script-neutral events. Overall, the recall rate was higher in the immediate than in the late phase. The results confirm the <i>isolation effects</i> or Von Restorff effect, which predicts that unusual and distinctive events are more memorable than typical, commonly expected events.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142786091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2024-11-28DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2433049
Steven Roodenrys, Leonie M Miller, Dominic Guitard, Ian Neath
{"title":"Similar phonemes create interference in the serial recall task.","authors":"Steven Roodenrys, Leonie M Miller, Dominic Guitard, Ian Neath","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2433049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2433049","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The mechanisms underlying forgetting have been central to theorising about verbal short-term and working memory, and the importance of interference as opposed to decay continues to be vigorously debated. Here, we present two experiments to evaluate the nature and locus of phonological interference as a source of forgetting in serial recall. In these experiments, we replicate studies showing that repetition of phonemes across items impairs recall of the later list item, even with visual presentation and typed recall. In addition, we manipulate the degree of phonemic overlap between a target word and preceding words in the list, and demonstrate that consonants that are only similar, as opposed to identical, to each other can interfere with the recall of other list items. Taken together, the experiments suggest that the primary factor driving phonological interference is the similarity of the articulatory features of the phonemes.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142751220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2024-11-28DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2433680
Wei Liu, Lei Deng, Hongsheng Yang
{"title":"Embracing strengths and avoiding weaknesses: a meta-analysis of the mnemic neglect effect.","authors":"Wei Liu, Lei Deng, Hongsheng Yang","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2433680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2433680","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The mnemic neglect effect describes a memory phenomenon in which individuals selectively forget negative information that threatens their core self-beliefs. While most studies support this phenomenon, some have shown that individuals do not always neglect self-relevant negative information and may even focus on it more. This study aims to validate the stability of mnemic neglect and explore the factors contributing to its variability under different conditions. This meta-analysis includes 18 studies with 93 independent samples (N = 4,989). The findings reveal: (1) The overall effect size of mnemic neglect is robust, <i>g</i> = 0.365, with a 95% CI [0.253, 0.476], Z = 6.416, <i>p</i> < 0.001; (2) there is a significant difference between recall performance for central and peripheral information, with individuals exhibiting better recall for self-relevant central information; (3) individuals recall fewer self-relevant central negative information compared to other-relevant central negative information; and (4) subgroup analysis indicates significant moderation of the mnemic neglect effect by anxiety levels and two fundamental dimensions of social cognition. This study provides empirical support for the robustness of mnemic neglect and further explores its underlying motivational mechanisms and influencing factors.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142751215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2024-11-25DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2431672
Simon J Haines, Lucy Busija, Alexandra Hering, Gill Terrett, Skye McLennan, Yvonne Wells, Peter G Rendell, Julie D Henry
{"title":"Executive control contributes little to prospective memory function in older age: evidence from more ecologically valid paradigms.","authors":"Simon J Haines, Lucy Busija, Alexandra Hering, Gill Terrett, Skye McLennan, Yvonne Wells, Peter G Rendell, Julie D Henry","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2431672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2431672","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Age-related losses in executive control are widely assumed to contribute to prospective memory (PM) lapses in late adulthood, but to date, this assumption has gained only inconsistent support from lab-based studies. The present study tested whether age indirectly affects PM via (1) individual differences in specific executive control operations (a parallel mediated model), or (2) a serially mediated model, with processing speed as the first mediator. Older adults (<i>n </i>= 166) completed four measures of PM that had higher ecological validity than standard lab-based paradigms, as well as measures of executive function and other cognitive abilities. The results showed that, although age was a significant predictor of reduced performance on three of the PM measures, particularly time-based tasks, these negative age associations were only slightly diminished when executive functions were controlled for. Performance on the PM task with the greatest ecological validity (MEMO) was independent of age and measures of executive function but positively related to both learning and retention. Processing speed was a poor predictor of PM performance on all measures (accounting for between 0% and 4% of variance). Taken together, these results highlight the need for circumspection in generalising the role of executive control in age-related prospective memory performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142716775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2024-11-21DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2431249
Reza Heydarloo, Ali Issazadeghan, Esmaeil Soleymani
{"title":"The mediating role of impulsivity in the relationship between executive functions (working memory, inhibition) and prospective memory.","authors":"Reza Heydarloo, Ali Issazadeghan, Esmaeil Soleymani","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2431249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2431249","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prospective memory refers to the ability to remember and execute planned tasks. This ability is associated with certain cognitive processes and personality traits. This study investigated the mediating role of impulsivity facets in the relationship between executive functions and prospective memory. Urmia University students (<i>n</i> = 201) participated in this cross-sectional study conducted from October to December 2023. Cluster sampling was employed for recruitment. Data were collected using the Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire (PRMQ), Adult Executive Functioning Inventory (ADEXI), and Short UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale (S-UPPS-P). Correlational analyses and path analysis were conducted. The path analysis revealed that among impulsivity facets, just lack of perseverance partially mediates the relationship between working memory and prospective memory (<i>β</i> = .062, <i>p</i> < .05), but not between inhibition and prospective memory (<i>β</i> = .010). These findings suggest that working memory deficits contribute to prospective memory failures, with lack of perseverance acting as a single mediator. This highlights the importance of considering both lack of perseverance and working memory for a comprehensive understanding of prospective memory difficulties.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142687098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2024-11-19DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2427666
Chantal M Boucher, Alan Scoboria, Kendall Soucie, Antonio Pascual-Leone
{"title":"Development and validation of the Closure and Resolution Scale (CRS).","authors":"Chantal M Boucher, Alan Scoboria, Kendall Soucie, Antonio Pascual-Leone","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2427666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2427666","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This research comprises three studies centered on the development and validation of a self-report measure of psychological closure and resolution, the Closure and Resolution Scale (CRS). Study 1 used exploratory factor analysis (EFA) in two samples to probe the factor structure for closure using original (Study 1a <i>N </i>= 284) and revised (Study 1b <i>N </i>= 158) item pools. Study 2 (<i>N </i>= 159) examined model fit using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and revealed a good-fitting simple structural solution. The CRS consists of 34 items assessing six facets of event resolution: (1) finality, (2) understanding, (3) felt distance, (4) emotional relief, (5) mental release, and (6) behavioural deactivation. Study 3 (<i>N </i>= 182) examined convergent and discriminant validity for the CRS and provided evidence of construct validity. Participants resided in North America and primarily identified as White (68.7%-77.5%), male (44.3%-59.3%) or female (40.1%-55.7%), with post-secondary education (69.3%-71.7%). We offer a novel measure of psychological closure and resolution with preliminary evidence of good psychometric properties.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142676315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2024-11-11DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2422906
Melanie K T Takarangi, Mevagh Sanson, Ella K Moeck, Michelle Johns
{"title":"People experience similar intrusions about past and future autobiographical negative experiences.","authors":"Melanie K T Takarangi, Mevagh Sanson, Ella K Moeck, Michelle Johns","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2422906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2422906","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We know much about people's problematic reactions-such as distressing intrusions-to negative, stressful, or traumatic <i>past</i> events. But emerging evidence suggests people react similarly to negative and potentially-traumatic <i>future</i> events. Given similar processes underlie remembering the past and imagining the future more generally, we wondered how similar involuntary memories, or intrusions, are for experienced vs. anticipated events. We focused primarily on intrusions because they are a transdiagnostic reaction to traumatic events. We asked subjects to report either a very stressful event they had experienced in the past 6 months, or one they anticipated they could experience in the next 6 months. We measured the frequency of intrusions about these reported events, and intrusions' phenomenological characteristics (such as emotional intensity), negative appraisals about their meaning, and reactions to them more generally. Overall, we found intrusions about experienced vs. anticipated autobiographical events were similarly troubling. This pattern supports the idea that anticipating the future can be aversive and elicit post-traumatic-stress-like symptoms, just as remembering the past can. Our findings have implications for theoretical models of traumatic-stress and treatment of traumatic-stress symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142623832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2024-11-06DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2423812
Chenxiao Wu, Chenyuan Zhang, Xueqiao Li, Chaoxiong Ye, Piia Astikainen
{"title":"Comparison of working memory performance in athletes and non-athletes: a meta-analysis of behavioural studies.","authors":"Chenxiao Wu, Chenyuan Zhang, Xueqiao Li, Chaoxiong Ye, Piia Astikainen","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2423812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2423812","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The relationship between sports expertise and working memory (WM) has garnered increasing attention in experimental research. However, no meta-analysis has compared WM performance between athletes and non-athletes. This study addresses this gap by comparing WM performance between these groups and investigating potential moderators. A comprehensive literature search identified 21 studies involving 1455 participants from seven databases, including PubMed, Embase, and ProQuest. Athletes primarily engaged in basketball, football, and fencing, while non-athletes included some identified as sedentary. The risk of bias assessment indicated low risk across most domains. Publication bias, assessed through a funnel plot and statistical tests, showed no significant evidence of bias. The forest plot, using a random effects model, revealed moderate heterogeneity. The overall effect size indicated a statistically significant, albeit small, advantage for athletes over non-athletes (Hedges' g = 0.30), persisting across sports types and performance levels. Notably, this advantage was more pronounced when athletes were contrasted with a sedentary population (Hedges' g = 0.63), compared to the analysis where the sedentary population was excluded from the non-athlete reference group (Hedges' g = 0.15). Our findings indicate a consistent link between sports expertise and improved WM performance, while sedentary lifestyles appear to be associated with WM disadvantages.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142591187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2024-11-04DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2420973
Nicholas Kathios, Paul Alexander Bloom, Anshita Singh, Ella Bartlett, Sameah Algharazi, Matthew Siegelman, Fan Shen, Lea Beresford, Michaelle E DiMaggio-Potter, Sarah Bennett, Nandhini Natarajan, Yongtian Ou, Psyche Loui, Mariam Aly, Nim Tottenham
{"title":"On the role of familiarity and developmental exposure in music-evoked autobiographical memories.","authors":"Nicholas Kathios, Paul Alexander Bloom, Anshita Singh, Ella Bartlett, Sameah Algharazi, Matthew Siegelman, Fan Shen, Lea Beresford, Michaelle E DiMaggio-Potter, Sarah Bennett, Nandhini Natarajan, Yongtian Ou, Psyche Loui, Mariam Aly, Nim Tottenham","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2420973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2420973","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Music-evoked autobiographical memories (MEAMs) are typically elicited by music that listeners have heard before. While studies that have directly manipulated music familiarity show that familiar music evokes more MEAMs than music listeners have not heard before, music that is unfamiliar to the listener can also sporadically cue autobiographical memory. Here we examined whether music that sounds familiar even without previous exposure can produce spontaneous MEAMs. Cognitively healthy older adults (<i>N</i> = 75, ages 65-80 years) listened to music clips that were chosen by researchers to be either familiar or unfamiliar (i.e., varying by prior exposure). Participants then disclosed whether the clip elicited a MEAM and later provided self-reported familiarity ratings for each. Self-reported familiarity was positively associated with the occurrence of MEAMs in response to familiar, but not the unfamiliar, music. The likelihood of reporting MEAMs for music released during youth (i.e., the \"reminiscence bump\") relative to young adulthood (20-25 years) included both music released during participants' adolescence (14-18 years) and middle childhood (5-9 years) once self-reported familiarity was accounted for. These developmental effects could not be accounted for by music-evoked affect. Overall, our results suggest that the phenomenon of MEAMs hinges upon both perceptions of familiarity and prior exposure.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142576544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2418768
Yana Fandakova, Nancy A Dennis
{"title":"Introduction to the special issue: the neuroscience of false memory.","authors":"Yana Fandakova, Nancy A Dennis","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2418768","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2418768","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1267-1270"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142522382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}