MemoryPub Date : 2024-09-10DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2399110
Lixia Yang, Julia Scaringi, Lingqian Li
{"title":"Age differences in memory for names and occupations associated with faces: the effects of assigned and self-perceived social importance.","authors":"Lixia Yang, Julia Scaringi, Lingqian Li","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2399110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2399110","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It has been documented that older adults' memory deficits can be reduced for information depicted as personally and socially important (e.g., Hargis & Castel, 2017 [Younger and older adults' associative memory for social information: The role of information importance. <i>Psychology and Aging</i>, <i>32</i>(4), 325-330]). The current study aimed to further assess the effects of both arbitrarily assigned and self-perceived importance in younger and older adults' memory for names (low in schematic support) and occupations (high in schematic support) associated with faces. Participants studied the same 16 face-name-occupation triplets (with neutral facial expressions) across four blocks, each including a free recall of names and occupations. At the end, they completed a cued recall of names and occupations. The faces were arbitrarily cued as socially important (i.e., with an orange frame) or unimportant (e.g., without a frame). The perceived social importance was assessed by rating all the triplets based on a 10-point Likert Scale (1 = least and 10 = most important) at the end. The results showed that age-related memory deficits were reduced or even eliminated for occupations (high in schematic support) relative to names (low in schematic support), especially in the free recall of faces self-perceived as important. In other words, the combination of schematic support and self-perceived importance can effectively mitigate older adults' memory deficit.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142291187","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 : 2024-09-09DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2401020
Dani Parra, Gabriel A Radvansky
{"title":"A novel study: fragmented and holistic forgetting.","authors":"Dani Parra, Gabriel A Radvansky","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2401020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2401020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>According to recent theoretical work, certain event memories are more likely to be remembered or forgotten in their entirety. This prior work focused on collections of concepts, such as person-location-object triples. To explore this idea with complex materials, we created triples of people, locations, objects, or activities from events in real-world novels. People who had read one of the included novels were provided with one element from these triples (the cue) and asked to identify which of six alternatives best went with it. The results revealed that memory for the narrative events remained stable across many years. Moreover, people recalled events in a more holistic manner than would be expected by chance. This was more likely the more causally important an event was. This pattern of performance also remained stable over time. Our results are consistent with the idea that event models involve integrating separate elements into a single coherent representation, and this is likely to stay integrated over long periods of time. However, the degree to which this is so appears to be related to how well-integrated the information is within a larger set of events.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142291186","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 : 2024-09-02DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2397043
Emma Bernardi, Kalif E Vaughn, John Dunlosky, Katherine A Rawson
{"title":"Toward mastering foreign-language translations: transfer between productive and receptive learning.","authors":"Emma Bernardi, Kalif E Vaughn, John Dunlosky, Katherine A Rawson","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2397043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2397043","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Learners can study foreign language-English vocabulary (e.g., <i>denken</i> - to think) both receptively and productively. Receptive learning involves being cued with a foreign language word (e.g., <i>denken</i>) and trying to translate it (i.e., to think). Productive learning involves being cued with an English word (e.g., to think) and trying to produce the translation. When students use retrieval practice to learn foreign-language translations in one direction (e.g., receptively) until they correctly recall the translation, do they demonstrate transfer in the other direction (i.e., productively)? Across three experiments, we answered this question by manipulating the order of learning schedule (reception first followed by production or vice versa). For a given schedule, participants continued to practice retrieving translations (with feedback) using the dropout method until they correctly recalled each translation three times; they then proceeded to practice the pairs in the opposite direction until they correctly recalled each translation three times. Across all experiments, transfer was partial (learning in one direction did not entirely eliminate the need to practice in the other), but transfer did occur regardless of which schedule students used first during practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142120221","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 : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-07-18DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2377193
Jason R Finley, William F Brewer
{"title":"Accuracy and completeness of autobiographical memory: evidence from a wearable camera study.","authors":"Jason R Finley, William F Brewer","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2377193","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2377193","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A small wearable camera, SenseCam, passively captured pictures from everyday experience that were later used to evaluate the accuracy and completeness of autobiographical memory. Nine undergraduates wore SenseCams that took pictures every 10 s for two days. After one week and one month, participants first recalled their experiences from specific time periods (timeslices), then reviewed the corresponding pictures to make corrections and report information omitted from initial recall. Results demonstrated the utility of wearable cameras as research tools, and illustrated several characteristics of everyday memory. Recall contents reflected the structure of undergraduate lives. Three different types of omissions were reported: neglected, reminded, and forgotten. Pictures stimulated memory, even for non-visual information (e.g., feelings, thoughts), increasing recall by 23%. The mean completeness of initial recall was 79% (upper bound), with at least 21% forgetting. Accuracy was self-scored by participants (<i>M</i> = 89%), and the mean error rate (11%) provided evidence against strong reconstructive and copy theories of memory. The characteristics of errors shed light on the cognitive processes underlying them. Ratings of recall (confidence, reliving, knowledge, and frequency) supported the episodic/semantic distinction, the dual-process theory of repetition, and reconstructive imagery. Metamemory measures showed a positive correlation between confidence and accuracy.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1012-1042"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141633900","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 : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-08-15DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2383311
Pamela J Radcliffe, Lawrence Patihis
{"title":"Judges and lawyers' beliefs in repression and dissociative amnesia may imperil justice: further guidance required.","authors":"Pamela J Radcliffe, Lawrence Patihis","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2383311","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2383311","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines continuing misunderstanding about memory function especially for trauma, across three UK samples (<i>N</i> = 717). Delayed allegations of child sexual and physical abuse are prevalent in Western legal systems and often rely upon uncorroborated memory testimony to prove guilt. U.K. legal professionals and jurors typically assess the reliability of such memory recall via common sense, yet decades of scientific research show common sense beliefs often conflict with science. Recent international surveys show controversial notions of repression and accurate memory recovery remain strongly endorsed. In historical cases, these notions may lead to wrongful convictions. The current study surveyed the U.K. public, lawyers, and mental health professionals' beliefs about repression, dissociative amnesia and false memories. Study findings give unique data on judges' and barristers' beliefs. Overall, the study findings reinforce international scientists' concerns of a science - knowledge-gap. Repression was strongly endorsed by lay, legal and clinical participants (> 78%) as was dissociative amnesia (> 87%). Moreover, suboptimal professional legal education and juror guidance may increase misunderstanding. Correcting beliefs about memory function, and extending the contribution of memory science in the courtroom remains an important quest for cognitive scientists.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1083-1099"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141988321","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 : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-07-27DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2381782
Jie Huang, Aijun Wang, Ming Zhang
{"title":"The audiovisual competition effect induced by temporal asynchronous encoding weakened the visual dominance in working memory retrieval.","authors":"Jie Huang, Aijun Wang, Ming Zhang","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2381782","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2381782","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Converging evidence suggests a facilitation effect of multisensory interactions on memory performance, reflected in higher accuracy or faster response time under a bimodal encoding condition than a unimodal condition. However, relatively little attention has been given to the effect of multisensory competition on memory. The present study adopted an adaptive staircase test to measure the point of subjective simultaneity (PSS), combined with a delayed matched-to-sample (DMS) task to probe the effect of audiovisual competition during the encoding stage on subsequent unisensory retrieval. The results showed that there was a robust visual dominance effect and multisensory interference effect in WM retrieval, regardless of the subjective synchronous or subjective asynchronous audiovisual presentation. However, a weakened visual dominance effect was observed when the auditory stimulus was presented before the visual stimulus in the encoding period, particularly in the semantically incongruent case. These findings revealed that the prior-entry of sensory information in the early perceptual stage could affect the processing in the late cognitive stage to some extent, and supported the evidence that there is a persistent advantage for visuospatial sketchpad in multisensory WM.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1069-1082"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141788653","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 : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-07-08DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2373897
Aysu Alkis, Yağmur İlgün, Basak Sahin-Acar
{"title":"Mother-child memory conversation and children's independent memory: the roles of maternal characteristics.","authors":"Aysu Alkis, Yağmur İlgün, Basak Sahin-Acar","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2373897","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2373897","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mother-child memory conversations are a nuanced and important factor in children's memory development. The current study focuses on maternal characteristics that are related to individual differences in maternal elaborative style. It also examines the role of maternal elaborative style in children's elaborativeness in the context of reminiscing and recounting. Two hundred and nine Turkish mothers (<i>M<sub>age</sub></i><sub> </sub>= 36.32, <i>SD</i> = 4.99) and their 5- to 6-year-olds (<i>M<sub>age in months </sub></i>= 66.88, <i>SD</i> = 4.04) (110 girls, 99 boys) participated in the current study. Results revealed that maternal individuation and balanced self-construal type predicted maternal elaborativeness, which in turn predicted child elaborativeness in reminiscing and recounting. Yet, such a relation was not observed for maternal attachment styles or sensitivity. Findings suggested the importance of maternal individuation and balanced self-construal for mothers' and children's elaborativeness in memory conversations.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"968-980"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141555176","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 : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-07-16DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2378873
Tugba Uzer, Hasan H Avşar, Huldenur Tepegöz, Süleyman T Kılıçkaya
{"title":"COVID-19 memories young adults may share: exploring event properties and motivations for transmission.","authors":"Tugba Uzer, Hasan H Avşar, Huldenur Tepegöz, Süleyman T Kılıçkaya","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2378873","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2378873","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic has left an enduring mark on human history. This study investigates the intergenerational transmission of COVID-19 memories through a unique approach involving 49 participants aged 18-30. Specifically, participants were prompted to share a COVID-19 memory they would choose to transmit to their future children. Furthermore, participants provided reasons for selecting that particular memory, utilising a memory functions scale and open-ended responses. Applying Transition Theory, we examined the transitional impact, event importance, previous rehearsal, and valence of reported memories. Results revealed that 88% of memories revolve around distinctive events inducing psychological and material changes. Perceived as significant, negative, and transitional, these memories are predominantly public in nature. Predictors of event importance include previous rehearsal and psychological change. Participants share memories primarily for directive purposes, intending to inform future generations. The results imply that transitions not only organise personal memories but may also direct and shape memories for public events.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1057-1068"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141627145","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 : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-07-17DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2378870
Adelaide Jensen, Alex W Castro, Rui Hu, Héloïse Drouin, Sheida Rabipour, Marie-Ève Bégin-Galarneau, Vessela Stamenova, Patrick S R Davidson
{"title":"Multifactorial Memory Questionnaire: a comparison of young and older adults.","authors":"Adelaide Jensen, Alex W Castro, Rui Hu, Héloïse Drouin, Sheida Rabipour, Marie-Ève Bégin-Galarneau, Vessela Stamenova, Patrick S R Davidson","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2378870","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2378870","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Multifactorial Memory Questionnaire (MMQ; Troyer & Rich, [2002]. Psychometric properties of a new metamemory questionnaire for older adults. <i>The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences</i>, <i>57</i>(1), P19-P27) is a widely used measure of subjective memory consisting of three scales: Satisfaction, Ability, and Strategies. Although subjective memory complaints are prevalent across different age groups, the factor structure and psychometric properties of the MMQ have yet to be examined in young adults. Here, we independently replicated the original MMQ factor structure in <i>N</i> = 408 young adults (YA) recruited from undergraduate courses and <i>N</i> = 327 older adults (OA) and, for the first time, assessed the age-invariance of the scale using measurement invariance testing. YAs made significantly higher ratings than OAs on MMQ-Satisfaction and MMQ-Strategies, indicating greater satisfaction with their memory and greater use of strategies, but the groups were similar on MMQ-Ability. The original MMQ factor structure was replicated in OAs but not in YAs, and age invariance was not supported. Future studies seeking to compare young and older adults could therefore consider either requesting modification of the MMQ for use with young adults or using a different scale.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"1043-1056"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141633926","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}