{"title":"Misinformation resistance in memory reports of one instance of a repeated event: Post-warnings reduce misinformation endorsement in recognition.","authors":"Ewa Smołka, Eva Rubínová","doi":"10.3758/s13421-026-01948-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-026-01948-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research shows that remembering repeated events differs from remembering single events, yet little research has examined suggestibility in adults' memory for repeated events. In the present experiment, we investigated the effects of eyewitness misinformation and the role of a warning against misinformation in a repeated-event scenario. We examined how different types of misinformation - entirely new items versus items present in non-target instances - influence reporting. Three hundred and nine participants watched four surveillance-mission videos that shared a general story structure but differed in key details. Participants were later exposed to pieces of misinformation in a video narrative of someone else reporting the first mission. Reporting was measured using free recall, cued recall, and recognition. We replicated the standard misinformation effect in the repeated-event context. We found that the warning reduced misinformation reporting, but the effect was present only in the recognition task. Based on the source-monitoring framework, we expected it would be easier to resist external (entirely new) misinformation than misinformation consistent with what was present in non-target instances, and this was also true. The warning's lack of efficacy may be accounted for in two ways. First, the inherent difficulty of attributing details to specific instances of repeated events may have overshadowed the potential effects of the warning. Second, ours was a general warning; it might not have been strong enough to restore an adequate understanding of a memory task distorted by misinformation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48398,"journal":{"name":"Memory & Cognition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149082128","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":"Working memory and vocabulary knowledge sustain activation of the literal meaning of metaphors during sentence comprehension.","authors":"Laura Pissani, Merel C J Scholman, Vera Demberg","doi":"10.3758/s13421-026-01935-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-026-01935-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Metaphors convey meanings beyond their literal interpretation, requiring individuals to rely on linguistic and cognitive resources beyond those used for literal language. Models of metaphor comprehension propose different routes to deriving metaphorical content. The indirect-access model suggests that literal meaning is accessed first and then rejected if context demands, whereas the direct-access model argues that metaphorical content is retrieved automatically without an initial literal interpretation. However, previous research has yielded mixed findings on this issue. We examine whether individual differences in metaphor processing explain these inconsistencies. We hypothesize that individuals may differ in their ability to retrieve metaphorical content or inhibit literal meaning directly. In Experiment 1, participants read sentences such as John is an early bird so he can... and were slower and less likely to select a target continuation (e.g., attend) when it was paired with a distractor related to the literal meaning of the metaphor (e.g., fly) compared to an unrelated distractor (e.g., cry). This literal awakening effect was more pronounced in individuals with higher vocabulary knowledge and working memory capacity. In Experiment 2, we examined whether the effect persisted when distractors were no longer grammatical in context (e.g., attend versus flying or crying). The literal awakening effect remained but was no longer modulated by individual differences. These findings suggest that, under semantic and syntactic competition, individuals with higher vocabulary knowledge and working memory capacity may attempt to reinterpret the related distractor as an elaboration of the metaphor, indicating that activation of the literal meaning of metaphors is sustained by vocabulary knowledge and working memory capacity.</p>","PeriodicalId":48398,"journal":{"name":"Memory & Cognition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149082123","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":"Explaining away the impossible: Effects of plausibility on predictive sentence processing and memory.","authors":"Miriam Brockmeyer-Koch, Sarah Schimke","doi":"10.3758/s13421-026-01949-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-026-01949-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study is concerned with the impact of plausibility on predictive sentence processing and memory for sentence content. Previous research provides inconsistent findings on how implausible input affects processing difficulty and memory performance. In a self-paced reading task and a subsequent word recognition memory task, we tried to disentangle the effects of prediction error magnitude and integrability with the situation model by contrasting unpredictable but plausible and semantically anomalous (implausible) input. To encourage deep processing of differences in plausibility, we incorporated a plausibility judgment in the self-paced reading task. Unlike comparable studies, we found longer reading times and better recognition memory for unpredictable but plausible than for implausible input. Our results suggest that when thorough relational processing is encouraged by the experimental task, unpredictable but plausible input entails slower processing and deeper memory encoding than implausible input. At the same time, knowing that anomalous sentences will occur in the task may have enabled participants to quickly discard the implausible input as uninformative, which led to quicker but also shallower processing. We suggest that prediction error caused by implausible input can be largely explained away top-down by high-level expectations even though it is not possible to predict the more specific semantic and lexical features of this input.</p>","PeriodicalId":48398,"journal":{"name":"Memory & Cognition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149076172","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":"Spaced repetition and list-strength in recognition memory.","authors":"Jeremy B Caplan, Dominic Guitard","doi":"10.3758/s13421-026-01875-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-026-01875-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intuition and classic mathematical models suggest that \"strong\" list items should see a competitive recognition-memory advantage when mixed with \"weak\" list items within a single list. This holds for manipulations of reading aloud but not other manipulations. Study time per item (e.g., 500 vs. 2000 ms), can even invert the effect, with a larger strength effect between pure-strength lists than within mixed lists. This inversion remained when the longer study time comprised three massed repetitions. An attentional subsetting theory account explained the inverted list-strength effect by assuming weak items had primarily shallow features encoded, and participants disregarded those on pure-strong lists, when the better, deeper features were available. Here we asked whether spaced repetition is an exception, rendering disregarding ineffective, or like massed repetition, produces an inverted list-strength effect if presentation time is short. In three experiments, spaced repetition produced a null or upright list-strength effect. Under equated conditions, massed repetition and long duration produced inverted or null effects. Thus, despite being within an experimental regime that has robustly produced inverted list-strength effects, spaced repetition appears resilient. These boundary conditions constrain models, including attentional subsetting theory and Retrieving Effectively from Memory, and we discuss how various theories may need to adjust to explain the full range of list-strength data.</p>","PeriodicalId":48398,"journal":{"name":"Memory & Cognition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149065209","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":"Remembering others' knowledge: Memory, metacognition, and guessing in partner modeling.","authors":"Oktay Ülker, Daniel Bodemer","doi":"10.3758/s13421-026-01944-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-026-01944-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In everyday social situations, people use knowledge about knowledge of their interaction partners (partner models). For example, students need to encode and remember whether their learning partner knows a lot or only a little about a specific learning topic. Partner models help to make informed judgments about whether learning partners can provide help or need explanations. In a preregistered experimental study, we examined how partner models about a learning partner are formed in a simulated computer-supported collaborative learning context. We applied multinomial processing tree models to measure memory processes and guessing biases separately. N = 168 participants were first assigned to a simulated learning partner (partner schema: expert, intermediate, or novice). They then received information on that partner's specific knowledge levels (high, medium, and low) for learning topics, before retrieving their learning partner's knowledge level for each topic. For the expert and intermediate partners, high and low levels were better remembered than medium levels. However, for the novice partner, only low levels were better remembered than medium levels. Models for experts and novices were more accurate than for intermediates. Generally, metacognitive judgments were not always in line with actual memory. When topics and levels were not remembered, guessing processes showed a schema-consistent bias: experts were overestimated and novices were underestimated. Memory and guessing processes involved in partner modeling are shaped by social schemas. Beyond informing the design of educational tools, the findings can generalize to contexts in which judgments about others' knowledge guide everyday social decision making.</p>","PeriodicalId":48398,"journal":{"name":"Memory & Cognition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149065198","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":"Different kinds of causality in event cognition: Memory for antecedents and consequences.","authors":"Daniela Parra, Gabriel A Radvansky","doi":"10.3758/s13421-026-01947-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-026-01947-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper presents a reanalysis of data previously reported from our lab. In line with prior research, these studies found that narrative memory was strongly influenced by the number of causal connections an event had within a larger narrative. In the current study, we were primarily interested in reanalyzing that data to consider whether these causal connections were antecedents or consequences. We found across studies that memory was much more strongly influenced by the number of causal consequences than the number of causal antecedents or serial position. The results are consistent with the idea that during reading, upon encountering a new event that is a consequence of a prior narrative event, the memory trace of that prior event is reactivated, thereby improving its retrieval later. Of secondary interest, for one of these reanalyses, we also found that memory was better at event boundaries, particularly as the number of event dimension shifts increased. However, not all event shifts resulted in better memory. These findings pose important implications for existing event cognition theories, including the Event Horizon Model, Event Segmentation Theory, and the Event Indexing Model.</p>","PeriodicalId":48398,"journal":{"name":"Memory & Cognition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149002601","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":"Event segmentation and encoding rely on information accumulated over different temporal scales.","authors":"Karen Sasmita, Khena M Swallow","doi":"10.3758/s13421-026-01946-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-026-01946-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People spontaneously divide experience into discrete units (event segmentation) that shape episodic memory. Although it is generally assumed that both event segmentation and episodic memory reflect the generation and maintenance of event models (mental representations of the ongoing situation), the degree to which these two aspects of cognition reflect the same processes is unclear. We examined this question by disrupting the ability to accumulate coherent information over time and evaluating the effect on both processes. We asked participants to segment and afterwards recall video excerpts that were presented uninterrupted, interrupted by a white-noise display every minute, or interrupted and jumbled by playing the 1-min-long video clips out of order. Interrupting or jumbling videos did not significantly change overall segmentation rates, patterns, or the tendency to hierarchically organize events. However, a finer-grained temporal analysis indicated that the segmentation rate briefly increased following a jumbled clip, stabilizing after 5 s. These findings suggest that content-based event segmentation stabilizes quickly following jumps in the narrative. In contrast, jumbling the videos every minute significantly reduced the number of events recalled and their organization with respect to time and semantics. Thus, event segmentation and memory encoding are differently impacted by disruptions in an ongoing narrative. Whereas event segmentation appears to rely on information accumulated over a relatively short timescale, episodic memory depends on the ability to integrate information over longer time periods.</p>","PeriodicalId":48398,"journal":{"name":"Memory & Cognition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149002680","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}
Sho Ishiguro, René-Pierre Sonier, Dominic Guitard, Jean Saint-Aubin
{"title":"Do semantic and phonological categories lead to proactive interference in immediate and delayed serial recall tasks?","authors":"Sho Ishiguro, René-Pierre Sonier, Dominic Guitard, Jean Saint-Aubin","doi":"10.3758/s13421-026-01945-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-026-01945-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Proactive interference (PI) has received considerable attention in research on working memory (WM), but empirical findings have been mixed. The present study examined whether this inconsistency may partly reflect the distinction between item and order memory. We hypothesized that PI would be more evident in item memory than in order memory and tested this hypothesis by applying item and order memory scoring methods to serial recall tasks. We also systematically manipulated two types of categories (semantic and phonological) and two recall tasks (immediate and delayed serial recall). For semantic categories, PI effects were consistently observed in item memory: performance increased following category shifts (e.g., animal words vs. flower words) in both immediate recall (Experiment 1A) and delayed recall (Experiments 1B and 3). In contrast, for phonological categories, reliable PI effects in item memory were observed under delayed recall (Experiment 2B), but not under immediate recall (Experiment 2A). Across these experiments, no clear PI effect was observed in order memory. These findings support the hypothesis that PI is more evident in item memory than in order memory and further suggest that the type of information may also influence PI. We also discuss how our delayed task relates to and differs from the Brown-Peterson task, a well-established task used to assess PI, in light of the item-order hypothesis. The distinction between item and order memory appears to be key to understanding PI in WM and may provide a useful framework for synthesizing past findings and guiding future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":48398,"journal":{"name":"Memory & Cognition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148983929","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":"The continued influence effect and situation models: Evidence for the model-updating account.","authors":"Carolin V Hey, Marie Luisa Schaper, Ute J Bayen","doi":"10.3758/s13421-026-01918-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-026-01918-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Information often continues to influence judgments even after retraction (Continued Influence Effect, CIE). According to the model-updating account, the CIE occurs because humans base their judgments on situation models that are not completely updated and, thus, continue to contain the original information despite retraction. These situation models should determine the CIE. However, direct evidence for this account is lacking. The aim of the current research was to test the model-updating account by assessing participants' situation models and testing whether these models mediated effects of the credibility of the original informant and of the retractor on the CIE. Participants (N = 435) read a fictitious news report in which original information and retraction were presented by sources of either high or low credibility. Source credibility was disclosed or not disclosed before processing of the original information and retraction. Thus, source credibility could or could not affect situation-model construction, respectively. Supporting the model-updating account, structural equation modeling showed that, when source credibility was disclosed before information processing, the situation model updated after retraction fully mediated the effect of informant credibility and partially mediated the effect of retractor credibility on the CIE. Higher source credibility led to stronger effects of original information and retraction on judgments than lower source credibility. When source credibility was not disclosed before information processing, it did not affect the CIE. These results strongly support the model-updating account and are inconsistent with purely retrieval-based CIE accounts. Some unexpected effects, however, could not be explained by the model-updating account alone.</p>","PeriodicalId":48398,"journal":{"name":"Memory & Cognition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148983905","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":"Strategic attention to memory: Proportion congruent effects in the episodic flanker task.","authors":"Gordon D Logan, Simon D Lilburn, Jana E Ulrich","doi":"10.3758/s13421-026-01938-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-026-01938-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The episodic flanker task is a memory analog of the perceptual flanker task, designed to assess parallels between attention to memory and perception. Subjects receive lists of six letters followed by probes that contain a cued target and flanking letters, which are the same as or different from the list (list: STVPDR, same probe: STVPDR, different probe: BNYPKL; cued position is underlined). Their task is to say whether the probed letter occupied the cued position in the list. The compatibility effect is the interaction between response and flankers: for \"yes\" responses, performance is better with same flankers than with different flankers; for \"no\" responses, performance is better with different flankers than with same flankers. We report another parallel between memory and perception, demonstrating strategic modulation of the compatibility effect by manipulating the proportion of congruent trials. In Experiments 1 and 2, 80% of the trials were congruent or 20% were congruent. Experiments 3 and 4 began with 50% congruent trials and switched to 80% (Experiment 3) or 20% (Experiment 4). Experiment 5 was a perceptual version of Experiment 2. Each experiment showed proportion congruent effects in response time and error rate: the compatibility effect was largest with 80% congruent trials and smallest with 20% congruent. Novel lists were used on each trial to rule out item-specific proportion congruent effects. There was little evidence of conflict adaptation in any experiment. These results support the attentional account of the proportion congruent effect and strengthen the parallels between attention in memory and perception.</p>","PeriodicalId":48398,"journal":{"name":"Memory & Cognition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148983931","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}