MemoryPub Date : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-04-13DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2026.2657536
Antonie Caissie-Gilbert, Dominic Guitard, Jean Saint-Aubin
{"title":"Bilingualism and individual differences in short-term ordered serial recall.","authors":"Antonie Caissie-Gilbert, Dominic Guitard, Jean Saint-Aubin","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2026.2657536","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2026.2657536","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In two experiments, we examined whether individual differences in bilingual language proficiency predict immediate serial recall in a language-specific manner. A total of 96 French-English bilinguals completed an immediate serial recall task involving 40 lists of 6 words, followed by the LexTALE lexical decision task in both French and English to index lexical knowledge continuously. Experiment 1 used visually presented word lists and included both pure-language lists and alternating-language lists; Experiment 2 replicated the same design with auditory presentation. Across experiments, LexTALE scores reliably predicted recall accuracy for words presented in the corresponding language, such that participants with stronger lexical knowledge in a given language recalled more items from that language. This language-specific proficiency-recall relation held across list contexts and generalised across visual and auditory modalities. The findings support accounts in which immediate serial recall is constrained by the strength of language-specific long-term lexical representations that support retrieval during short-term remembering.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"666-688"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147675019","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 : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-04-11DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2026.2656724
David F Gregory, Ziyuan Chen, Bailey C Spangler, Vishnu P Murty
{"title":"Arousal and valence differentially shape temporal memory for naturalistic events.","authors":"David F Gregory, Ziyuan Chen, Bailey C Spangler, Vishnu P Murty","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2026.2656724","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2026.2656724","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While emotional arousal and negative valence both alter episodic memory, their contributions to different facets of temporal memory remain unclear. Here, we examined two components of temporal memory - relative order and distance estimations - from aversive and neutral movie clips, allowing us to query more naturalistic forms of emotional memory. Overall, relative order was enhanced, and distance estimations were modestly compressed for aversive versus neutral movie clips. However, these two forms of temporal memory were associated differentially with arousal and valence. Negative valence exclusively drove enhancements in relative order, while temporal compression was jointly shaped by arousal and negative valence. Finally, greater temporal distance expansion predicted enhanced relative order discrimination, suggesting participants relied on relative novelty rather than associative chaining to resolve temporal sequences. Together, these findings indicate that arousal and valence make dissociable and interacting contributions to temporal memory for naturalistic events.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"656-665"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147662647","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 : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-04-09DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2026.2652400
Amelia G Morehead, Mark J Huff, Nicholas P Maxwell
{"title":"Must we do this again? Evaluating JOL carryover effects in cued-recall.","authors":"Amelia G Morehead, Mark J Huff, Nicholas P Maxwell","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2026.2652400","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2026.2652400","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Providing Judgments of Learning (JOLs) for cue-target pairs at study often improves recall for related pairs versus a silent reading control task, a pattern termed JOL reactivity. While reactivity patterns have been found consistently using a variety of stimuli and test types, they appear to only occur when participants are explicitly instructed to provide JOLs. Whether JOL reactivity can carry over to cue-target pairs when JOLs are not directly applied is unclear. We evaluated this possibility by comparing cued-recall between two study-test blocks. In two experiments, participants either provided JOLs on both blocks or only in the first block with instructions to provide covert JOLs on the second block. Although JOL reactivity was found with explicit JOLs in the first block, it did not carry over to covert JOLs in the second block (Experiment 1), nor did reactivity carry over when participants were frequently reminded to make covert JOLs (Experiment 2). Reactivity therefore appears to be a byproduct of overtly provided judgments.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"609-619"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147645801","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":"Emotional closure in involuntary autobiographical memories: evidence from a laboratory paradigm.","authors":"Sezin Öner, Ceren Dönerkayalı, Zehra Nur Kurtoğlu, Ewa Ilczuk, Krystian Barzykowski","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2026.2653708","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2026.2653708","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study investigates how the emotional closure status of autobiographical memories (open vs. closed) influences the frequency and phenomenology of involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs), and how these processes are further shaped by individual differences in the need for emotional closure. Participants (<i>N</i> = 226) completed a laboratory-based vigilance task designed to capture spontaneous thoughts, including IAMs, with probe questions assessing their occurrence and characteristics. Each reported memory was classified by participants as open or closed, and participants additionally completed the Need for Emotional Closure Scale (NECS). Results showed that closed memories were reported more frequently than open memories during spontaneous retrieval. In terms of phenomenology, open IAMs were rated as more emotionally intense and more important than closed IAMs, while no differences emerged in their valence. Notably, NECS interacted with closure status for valence, showing that individuals with higher emotional closure needs evaluated open IAMs more negatively than closed IAMs. We discuss the findings with a focus on the role of emotional closure in shaping spontaneous remembering, as well as the motivational and cognitive factors underlying the recurrence of autobiographical memories.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"620-634"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147662852","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 : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-05-08DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2026.2662607
Pia Pennekamp, Jamal K Mansour, Rhiannon J Batstone
{"title":"Numeric and verbal eyewitness confidence: order effects.","authors":"Pia Pennekamp, Jamal K Mansour, Rhiannon J Batstone","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2026.2662607","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2026.2662607","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The criminal justice system continues to obtain eyewitness confidence verbally (in the eyewitness's own words). Because verbal confidence statements are challenging to interpret, eyewitnesses could provide scale ratings after verbal judgments or vice versa - if the confidence-accuracy relationship is maintained when both are obtained. Participants watched two videos and then viewed a target-present and target-absent lineups for the targets. After each lineup, participants provided confidence verbally (in their own words) and then numerically (0-100%) or numerically and then verbally. Asking eyewitnesses to provide confidence verbally and numerically did not negatively impact the confidence-accuracy relationship, regardless of order. However, the numeric values eyewitnesses provided when using similar own-word confidence judgments varied. We caution that the usefulness of verbal confidence to postdict identification accuracy hinges on a systematic approach to its interpretation.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"689-702"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147840047","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 : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-05-05DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2026.2663972
Hilal Ersoy, Basak Sahin-Acar, Inci Boyacioglu
{"title":"The role of acculturation in autobiographical memory characteristics of Syrian migrants.","authors":"Hilal Ersoy, Basak Sahin-Acar, Inci Boyacioglu","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2026.2663972","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2026.2663972","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study examined the association between acculturation orientations and the phenomenological and episodic characteristics of autobiographical memories of Syrian adult migrants in Türkiye. Moreover, the role of language in this association was investigated. Each participant received three instructions: recalling a pre-migration memory, a post-migration memory, and projecting an autobiographical future event. Participants then rated the general phenomenological and episodic characteristics of each memory, as well as the episodic characteristics of autobiographical future projection. Results revealed that host cultural orientation was positively associated with all characteristics of post-migration memories, as well as with the episodic characteristic of autobiographical future projection. The interaction pattern of acculturation orientations showed that the separation strategy was positively associated with post-migration autobiographical memory variables. No statistically significant associations were found between language and autobiographical memory variables. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to examine migrants' autobiographical memory characteristics across different life periods by measuring acculturation. Overall, the findings suggest that the adaptiveness of different acculturation strategies for autobiographical memory recall may be highly dependent on the sociocultural context of the host country. The findings indicate new conceptualizations in migrants' autobiographical memory research and address gaps in the existing literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"703-724"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147840138","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 : 2026-05-01Epub Date: 2026-04-07DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2026.2650334
Yui Fukushima, Jackson A Cate, Andrea Taylor, Sharda Umanath, Maryanne Garry
{"title":"National collective memories and their functions in Japan and the US.","authors":"Yui Fukushima, Jackson A Cate, Andrea Taylor, Sharda Umanath, Maryanne Garry","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2026.2650334","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2026.2650334","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Collective memories are shared representations of a group's past. For nations, these memories serve important purposes: they shape national identity, promote social cohesion and guide future decisions. Although extensive research has examined collective memory in Europe and the United States, less is known about countries outside these regions, such as Japan. Cultural tightness and other societal differences may influence the extent to which collective memories serve these functions. To address this issue, we first asked Japanese participants to nominate nationally important collective memories (Study 1), and then asked both Japanese and American participants to report the extent to which their country's collective memories serve directive, social and identity functions (Study 2). Surprisingly, Japanese participants showed agreement on relatively few collective memories and rated those memories as serving these functions to a lesser degree than did Americans. These findings raise questions about how cultural tightness, institutional influences and educational systems shape collective memory and its functions. We suggest that in Japan, national identity may rely more on structural and cultural continuity than on shared recollections of specific historical events.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"544-555"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147633823","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 : 2026-05-01Epub Date: 2026-04-01DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2026.2652386
Jiansheng Li, Zhichen Chen, Ying Zhao, Jingnan Wang
{"title":"Forgetting unrelated spatial memories through suppression-induced amnesia.","authors":"Jiansheng Li, Zhichen Chen, Ying Zhao, Jingnan Wang","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2026.2652386","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2026.2652386","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Active forgetting through retrieval suppression can impair memory for information encountered nearby in time (\"amnesic shadow\"). Whether this collateral effect extends to spatial memory is unclear. Across three experiments, we examined how suppression influences the encoding of new spatial memories. Experiment 1 used a modified hippocampal-modulation paradigm that paired the Think/No-Think task with a spatial location task. Spatial locations encoded between suppression trials were recalled less accurately than those encoded between retrieval trials or a baseline, evidencing an amnesic shadow for spatial memory. Experiment 2 introduced a 24-hour delay and showed that the deficit persisted, indicating durability beyond initial encoding. Experiment 3 manipulated control strategies: direct suppression produced the shadow, whereas thought substitution did not impair nearby spatial learning. Together, the results support systemic-suppression accounts in which prefrontal control transiently down-regulates hippocampal function, broadly weakening hippocampus-dependent processes. By extending the amnesic shadow to spatial memory and isolating it to direct suppression, this work provides a strategy-specific behavioural marker of memory control and clarifies how attempts to contain unwanted thoughts can unintentionally degrade concurrent spatial learning.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"556-567"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147593159","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 : 2026-05-01Epub Date: 2026-03-09DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2026.2639554
Nida Bikmen, Thu Le
{"title":"Who wants to remember COVID-19? Social identification and collective remembering-imagining system predict support for pandemic commemorations.","authors":"Nida Bikmen, Thu Le","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2026.2639554","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2026.2639554","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Like most natural disasters, pandemics are rarely memorialised by societies and poorly remembered by individuals. Using an online survey, we examined two samples (total <i>N</i> = 350) of US young adults' support for commemorating COVID-19. Participants completed measures of identification with all humanity (IWAH), listed significant world events that happened since 1918 and events they anticipate happening by 2128, and indicated their support for investing public funds to commemorate COVID-19. IWAH was a significant predictor of support for commemorating COVID-19. Further, remembering natural disasters predicted anticipating future ones, which in turn predicted support for commemoration. However, the two predictors, IWAH and collective remembering-imagining system, were independent of each other. Findings confirm that people's anticipations for the future are informed by their knowledge of the past and suggest that efforts to prepare for future disasters could benefit from focusing on history education and public commemorations.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"495-505"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147390614","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 : 2026-05-01Epub Date: 2026-03-06DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2026.2639553
Demet Kara, Annette Bohn
{"title":"Personal future events of immigrants: what is the role of remembering the distant or recent past?","authors":"Demet Kara, Annette Bohn","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2026.2639553","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2026.2639553","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study investigated whether remembering the distant versus the recent personal past influences self-continuity levels and expected future event characteristics in a sample of immigrants. Seventy-three Turkish immigrants living in Denmark participated in three sessions involving questionnaires and life story interviews. In the first session, participants completed baseline measures of self-continuity, psychological wellbeing, acculturation, and demographics. In the second and third sessions, they recalled significant events and narrated life stories from pre-migration (distant past) and post-migration (recent past), followed by measures of self-continuity and wellbeing. After each memory recall, participants described three expected future events and rated them on phenomenological characteristics such as vividness and emotional valence. We analyzed differences in self-continuity and future event characteristics between the pre- and post-migration conditions, as well as the relationships among the variables, thematic content of future events, and their resemblance to cultural life scripts. Results revealed no significant differences in future event characteristics between the conditions. However, a small difference emerged in self-continuity levels: contrary to expectations, participants reported slightly higher self-continuity in the pre-migration condition than in the post-migration condition. These findings contribute to understanding of how autobiographical memory relate to future thinking and self in the context of migration.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"481-494"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147369868","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}