MemoryPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-06-02DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2512760
Christin Camia, Qi Wang
{"title":"Memory sharing on social media in the Arabic context.","authors":"Christin Camia, Qi Wang","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2512760","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2512760","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social media has transformed memory sharing into a virtual and public interaction, yet little is known about why individuals share memories online and how this relates to the features of their shared memories or their well-being. We examined these questions in a student sample (study 1, <i>N</i> = 120, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 22.47, 85.83% female) and a community sample (study 2, <i>N</i> = 102, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 28.24, 60.78% female) in the United Arab Emirates, where social media usage is widespread. Results showed that, consistent with findings from other non-Western cultures, Arab youth share memories on social media more for directive than other purposes, whereas Arab adults share memories equally for all purposes. Furthermore, purposes for sharing personal experiences on social media were related to actual social media use and, when aligned with cultural orientation, contributed to well-being. Overall, these findings provide novel insights into the purposes of online memory sharing in an understudied cultural context and support the person-culture-fit framework positing that culture-congruent remembering promotes well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"697-711"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144199606","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 : 2025-06-24DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2521076
Nicholas Barton, Michael Smyth
{"title":"Context-switching in short-form videos: What is the impact on prospective memory?","authors":"Nicholas Barton, Michael Smyth","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2521076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2025.2521076","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Short-form video domains, such as TikTok, may have a degenerate impact on Prospective Memory (PM) performance. This is due to the fast context-switching features that short-form videos present. This study examines the hypothesis that fast context-switching while watching short-form videos contributes to a cognitive decline. The pace of context-switching is the speed at which participants switch between videos. A between-groups design was used with three conditions that varied the pace of context-switching: (1) unlimited context-switching, (2) limited context-switching and (3) control (no short-form video stimulus). Participants' cognitive ability was measured pre and post-video viewing through a combined Lexical Decision (LD) and PM task. Participants (<i>N</i> = 45) were recruited using an experimental participation scheme. To test the hypothesis, linear mixed models were conducted, with LD and PM task response time and accuracy as the criterion and the three context-switching conditions as the predictors. Participants in the unlimited context-switching condition had significantly deteriorated PM performance post-interruption, whereas the limited switching condition had significantly improved PM performance post-interruption. Therefore, fast context-switching is identified as an underlying factor behind PM decline following short-form video use. This could inform the case for the regulation of media platforms with fast context-switching features.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144485038","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}
{"title":"Exploring age-related changes in episodic memory: contributions of a multimodal memory task.","authors":"Alix Launay, Laurence Taconnat, Maxime Brachet, Aurélie Matysiak, Sandrine Vanneste, Alexia Baudouin","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2516834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2025.2516834","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While the decline in episodic memory with aging is well-documented, few studies have conducted a detailed analysis of the content of the recall in an experience that closely mimics a real-life situation. The objective of the present study was to compare the recall of young adults, young-old and oldest-old adults using a multimodal paradigm involving the viewing of a short movie. We compared quantitative scores of free recall and deepened recall (guided recall using a semi-structured interview). We analyzed profile scores relative to the distribution of each episodic element into the deepened recall. Data from 60 young adults (20-35 years), 56 young-old adults (60-74 years) and 37 oldest-old adults (75-91 years) indicated significant age-related declines in recall performance. An analysis of the recall structure revealed that oldest-old adults report significantly more episodic elements related to actions than young adults. Besides, compared to both young adults and young-old adults, oldest-old adults reported significantly fewer details related to verbal conversations which require more perceptual specifics. These findings highlight the importance of detailed recall analyses to better understand how the formation of episodic memory may gradually change with age.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144275326","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 : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-04-21DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2492601
David Baudet, Aline Cordonnier, Olivier Luminet, Christine Bastin
{"title":"From one generation to the next: perception of frequency of family memory transmission.","authors":"David Baudet, Aline Cordonnier, Olivier Luminet, Christine Bastin","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2492601","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2492601","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Family serves as a crucial context for intergenerational memory transmission. From an early age, younger generations hear stories from older family members, fostering a sense of belonging, identity, and a deeper understanding of the world. However, the frequency of this intergenerational exchange in daily life remains underexplored. In an exploratory online study, we asked parents and grandparents how often they perceive sharing memories with younger generations (top-down) and how often children and grandchildren perceive receiving these memories (bottom-up). We assessed the perception of the transmission frequency for public and personal events across various timeframes. Our findings indicate that intergenerational memory transmission is perceived as relatively frequent. Notably, grandparents perceived sharing more memories with their children than the children perceived receiving from them. Transmission was also more common between parents and children than between grandparents and grandchildren. Additionally, personal memories were shared more frequently than public events, particularly when both transmitter and receiver had lived through the events. Correlations between perceived transmission frequency and the feeling of closeness suggested that grandparent-grandchild relationships benefit more from memory transmission than other pairs. These results highlight the varied ways in which individuals within families perceive memory transmission, emphasising the complex nature of intergenerational communication.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"510-526"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144033259","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 : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-05-14DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2502488
Amber Kai Xuan Gan, Mary C Whatley, Alan D Castel
{"title":"Prediction of information value influences memory: the effect of predicted and assigned value on memory.","authors":"Amber Kai Xuan Gan, Mary C Whatley, Alan D Castel","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2502488","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2502488","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We tend to prioritise more valuable information at the expense of less valuable information to optimise the use of our limited memory capacity. Participants better remember information that they judge to be valuable and that they are told is valuable. Using a recognition paradigm, we sought to examine whether predicting the value of art pieces before learning the experimenter assigned value would influence memory and the quality of retrieval. In two experiments, participants made value predictions about various art pieces and then learned the assigned value. At test, participants provided old/new and remember/know judgments and were tested on the exact value. Results revealed that participants' value predictions influenced memory to a greater degree than assigned value, despite assigned value indicating the amount of reward participants would receive. We discuss these findings with regard to strategic and automatic influences of value on memory, as well as in the context of reward prediction errors (a difference in expected and actual reward).</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"588-603"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12172540/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144008208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-05-11DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2498929
Pamela J Radcliffe, Lawrence Patihis
{"title":"In a UK sample, EMDR and other trauma therapists indicate beliefs in unconscious repression and dissociative amnesia.","authors":"Pamela J Radcliffe, Lawrence Patihis","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2498929","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2498929","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study explored UK mental health professionals' beliefs (<i>N</i> = 178) for autobiographical memory function for trauma in the context of adverse therapeutic outcomes, e.g., false memories. It captures novel data on controversial memory beliefs for unconscious repression, dissociative amnesia and dissociative identity disorder (DID). Study participants were mental health professionals and included non-trauma-focused, (<i>n</i> = 92), trauma-focused EMDR practitioners (<i>n</i> = 62) and (non-EMDR) trauma-focused practitioners (<i>n</i> = 24). Most study participants indicated some degree of belief in repression (>78%) and dissociative amnesia (>84%). EMDR and other trauma-focused practitioners showed elevated agreement for controversial memory notions. The EMDR practitioner group also showed more belief in the diagnostic validity of DID. New data on mental health professionals' beliefs about the aetiology of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) was also captured. Most study participants \"Somewhat agreed\" or \"Agreed\" that \"blocked out\" trauma memories are causally related to dissociation and physical symptoms, e.g., PNES (>78%); EMDR practitioners showed the highest degree of agreement (91%). The impact of memory beliefs alongside EMDR theory and practice is considered in the context of adverse therapeutic outcomes, e.g., false or non-experienced memories. Recommendations are made for future research to mitigate against adverse health outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"542-565"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12309458/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144007802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-04-21DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2493337
Emily E Davis, Hannah G Thomas, Matthew S Price, Caitlin E V Mahy, Karen L Campbell
{"title":"Differential attentional demands on implicit and explicit associative memory in children 8-12 years old.","authors":"Emily E Davis, Hannah G Thomas, Matthew S Price, Caitlin E V Mahy, Karen L Campbell","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2493337","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2493337","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Associative memory improves during childhood, suggesting an age-related improvement in the binding mechanism responsible for linking information together. However, tasks designed to measure associative memory not only measure binding, but also place demands on attention. This makes it difficult to dissociate age-related improvements in memory from the development of attention. One way to reduce attentional demands is to test memory implicitly versus explicitly. In this study, children (8-, 10-, and 12-years-old) completed separate implicit and explicit associative memory tests. For the implicit task, children incidentally encoded pairs of objects by making an object categorization decision. At test, they completed the same task, but unbeknownst to the participants, the pairs were either intact, rearranged, or new. Next, children completed another incidental encoding phase, then an explicit test in which they indicated whether the pairs were intact, rearranged, or new. For the implicit test, all age groups had faster reaction times for intact than rearranged pairs (indicative of implicit associative memory). In the explicit test, memory performance (<i>d'</i>) improved with age. A separate measure of attention related to performance in both the explicit and implicit tasks. Together, these results support that attentional mechanisms contribute to age-related improvements in associative memory.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"527-541"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144018317","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 : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-05-26DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2503404
Daniel J Burns, Nuo Chen, Kailin X Zhu, Siqi X Jia, Rebecca Tegiacchi
{"title":"Evidence for proactive interference effects in repetitive checking tasks.","authors":"Daniel J Burns, Nuo Chen, Kailin X Zhu, Siqi X Jia, Rebecca Tegiacchi","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2503404","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2503404","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Why does repeatedly checking one's actions, a common behaviour of those with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), undermine memory confidence? The most accepted explanation is that repetitive checking decreases confidence by increasing familiarity with the task, leading to the encoding of fewer perceptual details. We argue that checking, per se, does not decrease memory confidence. Rather, the experimental procedure that has been used to assess checking across repeated trials induces proactive interference (PI), causing the drop in confidence. We conducted three experiments in which participants repeatedly checked three different food items in a virtual refrigerator, with memory accuracy and confidence tested after the first and last trials. All three experiments showed that recall of the items presented on each trial, and confidence in the accuracy of the recalled items, decreased across trials, implying a build-up of PI. Experiments 2 and 3 also demonstrated that providing a category cue on the last trial eliminated the decline, suggesting a release from PI. Moreover, Experiment 3 showed that checking within a specific trial increased accuracy and confidence. This result suggests that the decline across trials is due to PI and that checking, per se, improves accuracy and confidence. Implications for individuals with OCD are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"604-618"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144142847","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 : 2025-05-01Epub 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":"10.1080/09658211.2025.2479503","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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":"495-509"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","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}