MemoryPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-06-20DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2363463
Sina Lenski, Mirlinda Mustafa, Jörg Großschedl
{"title":"Concept mapping - increased potential as a retrieval-based task.","authors":"Sina Lenski, Mirlinda Mustafa, Jörg Großschedl","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2363463","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2363463","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Concept mapping is a practical task for enhancing learning performance. Learners usually construct concept maps while studying the learning material or after studying. In the first case, the learning material is available during construction, and learners are less involved in retrieval practice from memory (study-based concept mapping; SCM). In the second case, the learning material is absent during construction, and the learners rely on retrieving information from memory (retrieval-based concept mapping, RCM). RCM is assumed to be associated with lower concept map quality and higher cognitive load but better elaboration and learning performance than SCM. This study investigated how the availability of the learning material influenced these variables in biology classrooms. Unlike other studies, this study provided learners with an authentic learning environment and prior concept mapping training. After the concept mapping training, <i>n</i> = 129 secondary school students were assigned to an SCM or RCM condition in a quasi-experimental design. As expected, students in the RCM condition constructed concept maps of lower quality but outperformed SCM students concerning elaboration activities and learning performance. The perceived intrinsic cognitive load was higher in the RCM condition. The results indicate that using concept mapping as a retrieval practice could support students' learning in biology.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"901-912"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141432192","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 : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2359503
Tine B Gehrt, Niels Peter Nielsen, Rick H Hoyle, David C Rubin, Dorthe Berntsen
{"title":"Measuring narrative identity: rater coding versus questionnaire-based approaches.","authors":"Tine B Gehrt, Niels Peter Nielsen, Rick H Hoyle, David C Rubin, Dorthe Berntsen","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2359503","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2359503","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Narrative identity - how individuals narrate their lived and remembered past - is usually assessed via independent rater coding, but new methods relying on self-report have been introduced. To test the assumption that different methods assess aspects of the same underlying construct, studies measuring similar components of narrative identity with different methods are needed. However, such studies are surprisingly rare. To begin to fill this gap, the present study compared the narrative variables, temporal coherence, causal coherence, and thematic coherence, measured via rater coding of participants' self-generated narratives of the remembered past and via subscales of the self-report measure Awareness of Narrative Identity Questionnaire (ANIQ). The results showed that the ANIQ subscales did not correlate significantly with their corresponding rater-coded dimension, and that the ANIQ subscales were generally unrelated to the other rater-coded dimensions. Furthermore, an exploratory factor analysis demonstrated that the ANIQ subscales loaded together on a factor that did not include any rater-coded variables. The findings suggest that the narrative variables share little empirical overlap when assessed via the ANIQ and rater coding of self-generated narratives.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"863-873"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141175837","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 : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2366625
Anne Mai Pedersen, Krista Nielsen Straarup, Tine Holm, Dela Sawatzki, Marie Tranberg Hansen, Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen
{"title":"Illness and narrative identity: examining past and future life story chapters in individuals with bipolar disorder, diabetes mellitus or no chronic illness.","authors":"Anne Mai Pedersen, Krista Nielsen Straarup, Tine Holm, Dela Sawatzki, Marie Tranberg Hansen, Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2366625","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2366625","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this study was to investigate whether narrative identity challenges are specific to Bipolar Disorder (BD) as a mental illness or a reflection of living with chronic illness. Nineteen individuals diagnosed with BD, 29 individuals diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) and 25 controls without chronic mental or somatic illness identified past and future life story chapters which were self-rated on emotional tone and self-event connections and content-coded for agency and communion themes. Individuals with BD self-rated their past chapters as more negative and less positive, and their chapters were lower on content-coded agency and communion themes compared to T1DM and controls. There were fewer group differences for future chapters, but BD was associated with lower self-rated positive emotional tone and self-stability connections as well as lower content-coded agency and communion themes. The results indicate that narrative identity is affected in individuals with BD above and beyond the consequences of living with chronic illness. This may reflect distinct effects of mental versus somatic illness on narrative identity.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"819-832"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141476949","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 : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-05-28DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2360567
Laura R Novick, Jingyi Liu
{"title":"Seeing what you believe: recognition memory for evolutionary tree structure is affected by students' misconceptions.","authors":"Laura R Novick, Jingyi Liu","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2360567","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2360567","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Peoples' recognition memory for pictorial stimuli is extremely good. Even complex scientific visualisations are recognised with a high degree of accuracy. The present research examined recognition memory for the branching structure of evolutionary trees. This is an educationally consequential topic due to the potential for contamination from students' misconceptions. The authors created six pairs of scientifically accurate and structurally identical evolutionary trees that differed in whether they included a taxon that cued a misconception in memory. As predicted, Experiment 1 found that (a) college students (<i>N </i>= 90) had better memory for each of the six tree structures when a neutral taxon (<i>M </i>= 0.73) rather than a misconception-cuing taxon (<i>M </i>= 0.64) was included in the tree, and (b) recognition memory was significantly above chance for both sets of trees. Experiment 2 ruled out an alternative hypothesis based on the possibility that 8-12 sec was not enough time for students to encode the relationships depicted in the trees. The authors consider implications of these results for using evolutionary trees to better communicate scientific information. This is important because these trees provide information that is relevant for everyday life.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"874-888"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141162325","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 : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-07-07DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2371110
Kyriaki Foka, Hannah Hunt, Simona Constantinescu, Tahsina Choudhury, Thomas J Walker, Amber Black-Dominique, Daniel Lai, Raja Bhoopathy, Olivia Sanderson, Lauren Wray, R Hamish McAllister-Williams, Peter Gallagher, Tom V Smulders
{"title":"Identifying the nature of episodic memory deficits in Major Depressive Disorder using a Real-World What-Where-When task.","authors":"Kyriaki Foka, Hannah Hunt, Simona Constantinescu, Tahsina Choudhury, Thomas J Walker, Amber Black-Dominique, Daniel Lai, Raja Bhoopathy, Olivia Sanderson, Lauren Wray, R Hamish McAllister-Williams, Peter Gallagher, Tom V Smulders","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2371110","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2371110","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>ABSTRACT</b>Deficits in episodic memory have been reported in various psychiatric conditions, including Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Many widely used episodic memory tests do not have the ability to distinguish between impaired memory of separate components of a real-life event (e.g., what happened, where it happened and when), and impaired binding of such real-life features. To address this issue, a naturalistic, real-world What-Where-When memory task was employed to assess the nature of episodic memory impairments in MDD. A validation study established that the task is sensitive to age-related episodic memory changes, and that intentional encoding does not invalidate the task. The main study then compared the performance of patients with depression and control participants on the intentionally encoded WWW task. Patients with MDD presented an overall episodic memory impairment arising from deficits in object memory and the ability to bind objects to temporal context. Taken together, our study confirms the episodic memory impairment in MDD, by providing evidence of deficient object memory and reduced ability to bind temporal context to objects in patients. Our naturalistic WWW task presents a promising approach for thorough identification of the nature of episodic memory impairments, under a real-world environment, in various conditions, including MDD.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"924-934"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141555175","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 : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-07-24DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2382285
Clare J Rathbone, Chris J A Moulin
{"title":"Understanding the relationship between self and memory through the IAM task.","authors":"Clare J Rathbone, Chris J A Moulin","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2382285","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2382285","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article we present a review of research on the IAM Task, whereby memories are cued by self-images in the form of \"I am … \" statements, such as I am a grandfather, I am a Bob Dylan fan, I am from Darlington, I am a Psychologist. Such cues are particularly successful at accessing memories associated with the formation of specific aspects of the self. We describe the conceptual and historical context for the development of our task and review findings from other researchers who have used the same basic design. We present aggregate data and examples from across several experiments, examining how these patterns change in psychological distress and dysfunction. We also discuss research on \"I will be\" statements and how these have been adopted to examine self-related future cognitions. We conclude that the working self operates to organise memory retrieval and make accessible episodic and semantic material for self-relevant periods across the lifespan. Moreover, accessibility of self-images can be modulated by retrieval of autobiographical memories, highlighting Conway's bidirectional relationship between memory and the self. We provide suggestions for future research and for the first time provide a standardised version of our IAM Task for use by researchers.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"803-818"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141759744","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 : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2023.2241673
David C Rubin, Carolyn F Bell
{"title":"Using shame to extend Martin Conway's self-memory system.","authors":"David C Rubin, Carolyn F Bell","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2023.2241673","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2023.2241673","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We extend Conway's self-memory system by adding theory and data from shame, an emotion that disrupts the internalised ideals of society needed for a positive self-concept. The event that caused 273 undergraduates their greatest amount of shame was analyzed; 66% were not very negative except for producing shame. Ratings of post-event effects, including two measure of self (self-perceived weakness, and centrality to identity) and four clinical symptoms (intrusions, avoidance, anxiety, and depression), were attributed separately to the remembered event, behaviour during the event, and shame from the event. The effects of shame were generally as large as the those of the event and larger than those of the behaviour, demonstrating the importance of shame's effects. The Tonic Immobility Scale (TIS), which measures tonic immobility (i.e., freezing), was obtained for the event that produced the most tonic immobility but that was not the event that caused the most shame. The post-event symptoms measured on the event that caused the most shame and the TIS correlated highly, suggesting that shame and tonic immobility may belong to a cluster of phylogenetically conserved submissive defensive mechanisms that could account for effects currently attributed to goals in self-memory systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"666-677"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9902510","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 : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-07-04DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2370532
Fabien Carreras, Chris J A Moulin, Andrea Tales, Claire M Barnes, Céline Souchay
{"title":"Metacognitive processes accompanying the first stages of autobiographical retrieval in the self-memory system.","authors":"Fabien Carreras, Chris J A Moulin, Andrea Tales, Claire M Barnes, Céline Souchay","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2370532","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2370532","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>According to Conway's view, Autobiographical memory (AM) construction is accompanied by control processes. These processes range from filtering out relevant memories according to the current context, to generating or elaborating appropriate retrieval cues. These processes can be conceptualised as metacognition, the ability to control and monitor cognitive processes. Experimentally, little has been carried out to support the idea that metacognition is involved in AM. To assess this, we designed a task, the Feeling of Retrieval. Participants had to predict whether cue words would facilitate AM access (i.e., fluent access cues) or not (i.e., limited access cues) in a limited time (either 1 (Exp. 2) or 2 (Exp. 1) s). Later, they retrieved memories in response to both types of cues. Results show that cues judged as fluent access led to better AM generation, as illustrated by AM retrieval latency and a subjective measure of the ease with which the AMs were retrieved. These rapid predictions may rely on epistemic feelings and / or other mnemonic cues such as a partial retrieval of information. This metacognitive access to the earliest stages of AM retrieval illustrates the ability to monitor AM processes as proposed by Conway (2005).</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"776-789"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141534808","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 : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-03-07DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2325522
Antonietta Curci, Fabiana Battista, Tiziana Lanciano, Francesco D d'Ovidio, Martin A Conway
{"title":"The reminiscence bump and the self: evidence from five studies on positive and negative memories.","authors":"Antonietta Curci, Fabiana Battista, Tiziana Lanciano, Francesco D d'Ovidio, Martin A Conway","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2325522","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2325522","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A plethora of studies have shown that people persistently remember public and personal events experienced during adolescence and early adulthood, particularly with a positive valence. In five studies, we investigate the reminiscence bump (RB) for positive and negative memories of public events (Studies 1 and 2), private events (Study 3), music-related events (Study 4), and cross-cultural memory differences (i.e., China and US) (Study 5). Participants retrieved either one positive or one negative memory, indicated their Age of Encoding, and provided secondary measures, i.e., memory vividness and rehearsal (Studies 1 and 3) and emotional intensity (Studies 2 and 4). About 10,000 memories were collected and positive memories appeared generally older than negative recollections, but the RB emerged for both positive and negative memories. Furthermore, the peak was earlier for positive memories of public events (<15 years old) than for negative memories (20-40 years), while no differences were found for private events or music-related experiences (15-25 years). Chinese had their RB later than US respondents. Finally, autobiographical recollections have moderate to low associations with secondary measures of phenomenological features of memory. These findings are consistent with the identity-formation theory, providing additional and important information on the development of the Self.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"757-775"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140049854","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 : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-01-03DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2023.2296826
Andrew Laughland, Lia Kvavilashvili
{"title":"The frequency and cueing mechanisms of involuntary autobiographical memories while driving.","authors":"Andrew Laughland, Lia Kvavilashvili","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2023.2296826","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2023.2296826","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs) have been typically studied with paper diaries, kept for a week or longer. However, such studies are unable to capture the true frequency of IAMs, nor the level of detail that would give new insights into the mechanisms of IAMs. To address this gap, a new audio-recording method was developed and tested on the first author who recorded 674 IAMs while driving a car on a 30-40-minute-long habitual route on 20 occasions. Results revealed very high frequency of IAMs (almost 34 per journey) that were reported more often in response to dynamic (one-off) than static cues. Moreover, a substantial number of memory chains and long-term priming of IAMs by previously encountered incidental stimuli were also recorded. Based on these results, a new theoretical model is proposed in which the occurrence of IAMs is determined by an interplay of factors at the time of the IAM, such as the type of ongoing activity and internal or external triggers, as well as different types of long-term priming. The results also have practical implications for studying mind-wandering and safety issues in driving and aircraft-flying, where periods of concentration are followed by monotony and less demanding tasks.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"723-737"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139080637","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}