MemoryPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-02-20DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2467134
Rachel Leigh Greenspan, Amanda N Bergold
{"title":"Can AI-generated faces serve as fillers in eyewitness lineups?","authors":"Rachel Leigh Greenspan, Amanda N Bergold","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2467134","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2467134","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To create a photo lineup for an eyewitness, police embed the suspect in a group of similar-looking individuals (i.e., fillers). If the witness selects the suspect from these photos of similar-looking people, then this provides evidence they remember the suspect from the crime event. Selecting appropriate fillers is one of the most difficult aspects of lineup construction. In these studies, we explore the feasibility of using artificial intelligence (AI) to generate images of fake people to serve as fillers in a photo lineup. Our results show that people largely fail to detect the differences in a lineup between the real photo of the suspect and the AI-generated fillers. Across different identification outcomes and related decision criteria, we found no evidence of differences between lineups with real and AI-generated fillers. Our study focused on a white, male target and future research is needed to test the generalizability of these findings. We conclude by discussing the feasibility and implications of the use of this technology in police investigations.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"416-429"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143468050","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 : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2471327
Marina Martinčević, Andrea Vranić, Robert Logie
{"title":"Verbalisation of processes underlying prospective memory.","authors":"Marina Martinčević, Andrea Vranić, Robert Logie","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2471327","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2471327","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although prospective memory (PM) has been studied extensively, relatively little research has addressed errors in different steps of PM performance. The aim of this study was to examine errors occurring in different phases of the microstructure model in PM performance and whether verbalisation can serve in their measurement. We report the results of two experiments in which young adults were divided into experimental and control groups. Both groups solved either a 3-day (Experiment 1) or a 5-day (Experiment 2) version of the Virtual week (VW) task. Experimental groups had to verbalise each PM task before performing it. The results of Experiment 1 showed that verbalisation may prolong the time to execute the task, but in both experiments, verbalisation did not affect the PM performance. In analysing different types of errors, we found that: (1) prospective component errors are more often caused by tasks requiring greater strategic monitoring (only Experiment 1), (2) recall component errors are evident in irregular tasks, and (3) execution errors are more often evidenced in tasks with greater response competition. This confirms that there is a wide range of processes that can lead to PM failures, and verbalisation is one method by which we can detect them.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"430-446"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143567759","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 : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-02-13DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2462645
Gillian Murphy, Owen Coyle, Michelle Kerin, Christian Ryan, Maria Dempsey
{"title":"Recovered memory practices in Ireland: public & professional perspectives.","authors":"Gillian Murphy, Owen Coyle, Michelle Kerin, Christian Ryan, Maria Dempsey","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2462645","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2462645","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We surveyed members of the public and professionals to assess opinions and experiences related to recovered memories in Ireland (<i>N</i> = 675). We found that memory recovery amongst therapy-goers in Ireland is relatively common (8%). Likewise, many practitioners (29%) reported some experience with a client recovering a memory and most had actually recovered a memory themselves. However, both groups struggled with definitions of recovered memories: initially reporting inflated figures (19% & 84%, respectively) that incorporated normal, non-repression-related memory mechanisms. Working therapists and current trainees reported a profound lack of training in this area. We also replicated a previously demonstrated scientist-practitioner divide, where researchers were more likely than practitioners to endorse the fallibility of memory. Though the study related to a sensitive topic, both professionals and members of the public reported enjoying the survey and did not find the questions distressing or ethically problematic - encouraging for future research in this field.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"404-415"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143414599","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 : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-02-04DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2458813
Nicholas P Maxwell
{"title":"Judgments of learning improve memory for word lists via enhanced item-specific encoding: evidence from categorised, uncategorised, and DRM lists.","authors":"Nicholas P Maxwell","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2458813","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2458813","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Judgments of Learning (JOLs) have been repeatedly shown to be reactive on memory. However, the specific processes underlying JOL reactivity differ based on the type of stimuli participants study and the method by which their memory is assessed. Recently, item-specific encoding has been proposed as a mechanism explaining JOL reactivity on word list learning. To test this account, participants studied categorised and uncategorised word lists (Experiments 1A/1B) or DRM lists (Experiment 2) while providing item-level JOLs, global JOLs, or silently reading each word. Across experiments, item-level JOLs improved correct memory for all list types but only when recognition testing was used (Experiments 1B and 2). Separately, global JOLs improved free-recall of categorised but not uncategorised lists (Experiment 1A) but were non-reactive on correct recognition (Experiments 1B and 2). Finally, Experiment 2 found that global but not item-level JOLs increased false recognition in the DRM false memory illusion. Taken together, when JOLs are elicited separately for each word, they improve memory via item-specific processes. However, when JOLs emphasise list-wise relations (e.g., global JOLs), reactivity may instead reflect a relational encoding process.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"375-389"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143189870","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 : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2472969
Erin Morrow, Susie Shepardson, Stephan Hamann
{"title":"Enhanced recognition memory for emotional nonverbal sounds.","authors":"Erin Morrow, Susie Shepardson, Stephan Hamann","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2472969","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2472969","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emotion often enhances memory for emotional stimuli relative to neutral stimuli. This emotional memory enhancement effect has been studied extensively with visual and verbal stimuli, yet little is known regarding emotion's effects on memory for nonverbal (or environmental) sounds, such as dog snarls and infant cries. Additionally, emotion's enhancing effects on recognition for visual and verbal stimuli are selective to recollection (recognition with contextual retrieval) rather than familiarity (recognition based on memory strength), but whether this is also the case for nonverbal sounds is unknown. We examined recognition memory for negative and neutral nonverbal sounds, predicting that memory would be enhanced for negative sounds and this enhancement would be specific to recollection. Participants incidentally encoded negative and neutral sounds, and memory was tested with a remember-familiar recognition memory task after a 15-minute delay. As predicted, recognition memory was enhanced for negative sounds, was better for higher versus lower arousal negative sounds, and was specific to recollection. These findings suggest that key aspects of the emotional enhancement effect also extend to nonverbal sounds. We discuss how current theories of emotional memory which focus on memory for visual and verbal stimuli can be extended to accommodate findings with nonverbal emotional auditory stimuli.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"461-473"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143557332","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 : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-02-06DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2461153
Laurence Chouinard-Gaouette, Isabelle Blanchette
{"title":"Do emotionally negative events impair working memory as a result of intrusive thoughts?","authors":"Laurence Chouinard-Gaouette, Isabelle Blanchette","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2461153","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2461153","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Individuals exposed to highly stressful negative events show alterations in working memory (WM) function. The correlational nature of these studies makes it impossible to determine whether exposure to negative events itself decreases WM. Such events elicit intrusive thoughts which may cause interference in WM. The main objective of this study was to verify the causal impact of a recent negative event on WM, and to examine the role of intrusive thoughts. One hundred and twenty participants completed a WM task (<i>n</i>-Back). Then, 90 of these participants watched an emotionally negative video and 30 watched a neutral video. The emotional impact of the video was assessed, and the frequency of intrusive thoughts were measured. WM was measured a second time (<i>n</i>-Back) while recording EEG (P300). Contrary to our hypothesis, the negative video did not impair behavioural WM performance compared to the neutral video. However, it disrupted WM neurocognitive processes (lower P300 amplitude) under low WM load. In the high load condition, greater emotional reaction was linked to poorer accuracy and more intrusive thoughts, which in turn slowed response times. Our results suggest that the impact of negative emotions on WM depends on both individual sensitivity and cognitive load.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"390-403"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143365248","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 : 2025-03-31DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2485099
Jiaqun Gan, Yunfei Guo, Enguo Wang
{"title":"The effect of task difficulty on the aftereffects of prospective memory.","authors":"Jiaqun Gan, Yunfei Guo, Enguo Wang","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2485099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2025.2485099","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>ABSTRACT</b>The aftereffects of prospective memory (PM) are a phenomenon by which, after the completion or cancellation of a PM task, the intention remains active. The current study investigates the effect of task difficulty on the aftereffects of PM. In Experiment 1, 132 college students were recruited to explore the effect of ongoing task difficulty on the aftereffects of PM. The results of one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed that the commission error rate under the high-difficulty condition was higher than that under the low-difficulty condition. In Experiment 2, 105 college students were recruited to further investigate the effect of prospective memory task difficulty on the aftereffects of PM. The results of one-way ANOVA showed that the commission error rate under the single cue condition was higher than that under the multiple cues condition. The results of the above two experiments indicate that PM aftereffects are easily influenced by task difficulty, which suggests that the PM aftereffects involve controlled processing. The results of this study tested multiple conflicting theoretical viewpoints, which is beneficial for confirming the processing mechanism of PM aftereffects. This study has been registered and the registration number is ChiCTR2500098910.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143753492","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 : 2025-03-23DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2479503
Kris-Ann S Anderson, Quincy C Miller, Deryn Strange, Kamala London
{"title":"Repressed memories and the <i>body keeps the score</i>: public perceptions and prevalence.","authors":"Kris-Ann S Anderson, Quincy C Miller, Deryn Strange, Kamala London","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2479503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2025.2479503","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>ABSTRACT</b>The \"memory wars\" resurgence has renewed debates over the validity of repressed memories. This revival appears linked to factors such as changing statutes of limitations, confusion about repression, and unchallenged social media content. In a nationally representative online survey of American adults (<i>N </i>= 1581), we examined (a) beliefs in repression and <i>the body keeps the score</i>, (b) the prevalence of recovered memory claims, and (c) the impact of question phrasing on recovered memory reporting. An overwhelming 94% of respondents expressed belief in repressed memory, and 77% endorsed the idea that the body keeps the score. Additionally, 3.6% (<i>n </i>= 57) of participants self-reported claims of recovered memories previously unknown to them, with an average of 75% confidence in the accuracy of those memories. We also found that asking about unwanted experiences provided a more conservative estimate for recovered memory claims compared to first asking directly about child abuse memories. Finally, qualitative analyses underscore adults' confusion about repression and the media's potential influence. Given the significant emotional and legal consequences of recovered memories, we suggest memory experts must be better at giving our science away if the \"memory wars\" are ever to really end.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143692712","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 : 2025-03-01Epub 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":"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":"295-305"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","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 : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-01-27DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2453178
Lucy A Matson, Ella K Moeck, Melanie K T Takarangi
{"title":"The differential fading of disgust and fear reactions to a personal trauma in a non-clinical population.","authors":"Lucy A Matson, Ella K Moeck, Melanie K T Takarangi","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2453178","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2453178","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>ABSTRACT</b>Persistent negative emotions are a key post-traumatic stress (PTS) symptom. <i>Disgust</i> occurs during/following traumatic events and predicts PTS symptoms, but is overlooked relative to other negative emotions like fear. Here, we investigate how trauma-related disgust fades-or persists-in memory (i.e., a person's recollection of how they felt during a traumatic event vs. their current feelings), and over time, relative to fear. In a cross-sectional (Study 1; <i>N</i> = 471) and longitudinal (Study 2; <i>N</i> = 160) study, participants rated their disgust and fear reactions to a recent stressful/traumatic event, at the time the event occurred (peritraumatic; \"then\") and at present (posttraumatic; \"now\"). Study 2 participants provided additional \"now\" emotion ratings 3 months later. Cross-sectional comparisons showed that whilst participants' disgust and fear reactions were lower in intensity \"now\" relative to \"then\", fear faded to a greater degree than disgust. Time since the traumatic event and PTS symptom severity were not related to disgust's relative persistence. In contrast, disgust and fear similarly persisted longitudinally. We conclude disgust and fear similarly persist over time, but disgust persists in memory more than fear. Understanding how to reduce feelings of disgust following trauma is clinically important, since disgust is more resistant to PTSD treatments than fear.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"362-374"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143047260","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}