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Effectiveness of production and drawing as encoding techniques on recall using mixed- and pure-list designs Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Sophia H.N. Tran, Myra A. Fernandes
We compared the benefit of production and drawing on recall of concrete and abstract words, using mixed- and pure-list designs. We varied stimulus and list types to examine whether the memory benef...
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You don’t understand me! But, I do! Awareness of cross-generational differences in collective remembering of national historic events Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Claire Hou, Sharda Umanath, Amy Corning, Magdalena Abel
Collective memories refer to a group’s shared representation of the past, which are slow to change over time. In this study, representative samples of American and German Younger Adults (YAs) and O...
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Flashbulb and first-hand memories for campus closings due to COVID-19: consistency and change. Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Yan Xuan,Mackenna Greenberg,Sharda Umanath,Jennifer H Coane
Flashbulb memories (FBM) refer to the vivid and detailed retrieval of the reception context of a highly salient event. We examined FBMs and personal memories for one college's sudden transition to remote learning due to COVID-19. We explored whether the announcement of the campus' closure resulted in FBMs, how respondents felt about the decision, and the impacts of the decision. Employing a two-wave
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Negative life events predict depressive trends: the moderating effect of overgeneral autobiographical memory and early parenting behaviour. Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Xinyu Zhang,Yuanxia Zheng,Guoxiong Liu
The Emerging Adulthood is a complex and chaotic period and depression is one of the main psychological health problems during this period. Overgeneral autobiographical memory (OGM) is prevalent among patients with clinical depression. However, the prediction of OGM in groups with non-clinical depression and its influencing mechanisms remain inconclusive. Studies have shown that OGM and early parenting
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Inducing positive involuntary mental imagery in daily life using personalized photograph stimuli. Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Mahdi Bagheri,Marcella L Woud,Jolina Simon,Lilah Abdalla,Mats Dombrowe,Cem Woinek,Jürgen Margraf,Simon E Blackwell
Most people experience positive involuntary mental imagery (IMI) frequently in daily life; however, evidence for the importance and effects of positive IMI is largely indirect. The current study adapted a paradigm to experimentally induce positive IMI in participants' daily lives. This could in turn provide a means to directly test positive IMI's effects. In a within-subjects design, participants (N = 41)
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A novel study: fragmented and holistic forgetting Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Dani Parra, Gabriel A. Radvansky
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-loca...
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Age differences in memory for names and occupations associated with faces: the effects of assigned and self-perceived social importance Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Lixia Yang, Julia Scaringi, Lingqian Li
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’ associ...
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Toward mastering foreign-language translations: transfer between productive and receptive learning Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Emma Bernardi, Kalif E. Vaughn, John Dunlosky, Katherine A. Rawson
Learners can study foreign language-English vocabulary (e.g., denken – to think) both receptively and productively. Receptive learning involves being cued with a foreign language word (e.g., denken...
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Pupil old/new effect as an objective measure of recognition memory: a meta-analysis of 17 eye-tracking experiments Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Alexandra Lapteva, Corinna S. Martarelli
Recognition memory, the ability to recognise previously encountered information, correlates with pupil diameter changes during the recognition period. This physiological response, known as the pupi...
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Associative asymmetry of the recognition without cued-recall effect in thematic relations Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Yongping Jia, Guixiong Liu, Lingling Xue, Shengfeng Zhang, Zhengwei Lai, Chunhuan Huang
In the present study, two experiments were conducted to examine whether thematic relation can produce recognition without cued-recall effect and whether the direction of the association has an infl...
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Evidence for separate backward recall and n-back working memory factors: a large-scale latent variable analysis Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Elizabeth M. Byrne, Rebecca A. Gilbert, Rogier A. Kievit, Joni Holmes
Multiple studies have explored the factor structure of working memory (WM) tasks, yet few have done so controlling for both the domain and category of the memory items in a single study. In the cur...
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Autobiographical memory phenomenology in transgender and cisgender individuals Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Azriel Grysman, Caleb Schlaupitz, Jennifer G. Bohanek, Angela F. Lukowski
Transgender individuals face challenges to identity as they transition from their sex assigned at birth to their affirmed gender. Memories may support a sense of self through the recall of events w...
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Semantic-to-autobiographical memory priming: the role of cue repetition Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 John H. Mace, Sophia R. Keller, Kenneth E. Ingle
It is now well established that general information processing causes the activation of memories in the autobiographical memory system, and these memories on occasion emerge as involuntary autobiog...
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Did I tell you something personal? The influence of the distinctive features on destination memory Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-18 Raquel Pinto, Pedro B. Albuquerque
Several studies observed that a worse destination memory (i.e., capacity to remember to whom we said something) occurs when personal facts are shared, which was explained based on the internal atte...
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Judges and lawyers’ beliefs in repression and dissociative amnesia may imperil justice: further guidance required Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-15 Pamela J. Radcliffe, Lawrence Patihis
This article examines continuing misunderstanding about memory function especially for trauma, across three UK samples (N = 717). Delayed allegations of child sexual and physical abuse are prevalen...
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The role of attention and verbal rehearsal in remembering more valuable item-colour binding Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Xiaotong Yin, Jelena Havelka, Richard J. Allen
Selectively remembering more valuable information can improve memory efficiency. Such value effects have been observed on long-term memory for item-colour binding, but the possible contributory fac...
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An exploration of Italian laypeople’s belief in how human memory works Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Mara Stockner, Gianmarco Convertino, Jessica Talbot, Michela Marchetti, Danilo Mitaritonna, Marta Vicario, Giuliana Mazzoni
We present the first study to measure the beliefs held by Italian laypeople about how human memory works, using a newly developed tool: the Italian Memory Belief Questionnaire (IMBQ). Research cond...
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Is precrastination related to updating and inhibition aspects of executive function? Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Sanaii N. Masih, Ryan Jun Seong Liew, Dawn M. McBride
Precrastination is the act of completing a task as soon as possible even at the expense of extra effort. Past research has suggested that individuals precrastinate due to a desire to reduce their c...
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Open science practices in the false memory literature Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Sera Wiechert, Phaedra Leistra, Gershon Ben-Shakhar, Yoni Pertzov, Bruno Verschuere
In response to the replication crisis in psychology, the scientific community has advocated open science practices to promote transparency and reproducibility. Although existing reviews indicate in...
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The audiovisual competition effect induced by temporal asynchronous encoding weakened the visual dominance in working memory retrieval Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Jie Huang, Aijun Wang, Ming Zhang
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...
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Understanding the relationship between self and memory through the IAM task Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Clare J. Rathbone, Chris J. A. Moulin
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...
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Accuracy and completeness of autobiographical memory: evidence from a wearable camera study Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Jason R. Finley, William F. Brewer
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 undergraduate...
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Multifactorial Memory Questionnaire: a comparison of young and older adults Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Adelaide Jensen, Alex W. Castro, Rui Hu, Héloïse Drouin, Sheida Rabipour, Marie-Ève Bégin-Galarneau, Vessela Stamenova, Patrick S. R. Davidson
The Multifactorial Memory Questionnaire (MMQ; Troyer & Rich, [2002]. Psychometric properties of a new metamemory questionnaire for older adults. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological ...
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COVID-19 memories young adults may share: exploring event properties and motivations for transmission Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Tugba Uzer, Hasan H. Avşar, Huldenur Tepegöz, Süleyman T. Kılıçkaya
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...
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Identifying the nature of episodic memory deficits in Major Depressive Disorder using a Real-World What-Where-When task Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-07 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
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 distin...
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The unique and remarkable contributions to our understanding of memory that is the legacy of Martin A. Conway Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Mark L. Howe, Henry Otgaar
Published in Memory (Vol. 32, No. 6, 2024)
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Self-reported sensibility to bodily signals predicts individual differences in autobiographical memory: an exploratory study Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Alessandro Messina, Dorthe Berntsen
Recent theoretical perspectives have advanced that autobiographical memory processes are supported by interoception, the perception of internal bodily sensations. Yet, this relationship remains lar...
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Mother–child memory conversation and children’s independent memory: the roles of maternal characteristics Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Aysu Alkis, Yağmur İlgün, Basak Sahin-Acar
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 differenc...
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To what extent does post-identification feedback translate into witness behaviour? Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Yui Fukushima, Kayla Jordan, Maryanne Garry
When eyewitness receive feedback implying they have accurately identified the perpetrator from a lineup, it boosts their confidence and possibly distorts their memory. Most research investigating t...
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Development of self-derivation through memory integration and relations with world knowledge Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Patricia J. Bauer, Jessica A. Dugan, Lucy M. Cronin-Golomb, Katherine A. Lee, Britney Del Solar, Melanie Hanft, Alissa G. Miller
Accumulating world knowledge is a major task of development and education. The productive process of self-derivation through memory integration seemingly is a valid model of the process. To test th...
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Effects of delay and reminders on time-based prospective memory in a naturalistic task Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Lauren D. Black, Dawn M. McBride
The current study examined the effect of a delay on naturalistic time-based prospective memory (PM) tasks. Two experiments were performed to compare PM performance on a texting task with delays of ...
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Metacognitive processes accompanying the first stages of autobiographical retrieval in the self-memory system Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Fabien Carreras, Chris J. A. Moulin, Andrea Tales, Claire M. Barnes, Céline Souchay
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 contex...
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Remembering the good and bad and the self and others in a culturally modulated self-memory system Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Qi Wang, Nazike Mert, Yuchen Tian
Wang and Conway (2006, Autobiographical memory, self, and culture. In L.-G. Nilsson, & N. Ohta (Eds.), Memory and society: Psychological perspectives (pp. 9–27). Psychology Press) posit that rememb...
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The role of attention in the emergence of the evaluative and incidental self-reference effects Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Christy Wong, Anaya S. Navangul, Stephen C. Philipps, Kyungmi Kim
The self-reference effect (SRE) is a memory advantage produced by encoding information in a self-relevant manner. The “evaluative” SRE arises when people engage in explicit self-evaluation/reflecti...
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Illness and narrative identity: examining past and future life story chapters in individuals with bipolar disorder, diabetes mellitus or no chronic illness Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Anne Mai Pedersen, Krista Nielsen Straarup, Tine Holm, Dela Sawatzki, Marie Tranberg Hansen, Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen
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...
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Concept mapping – increased potential as a retrieval-based task Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Sina Lenski, Mirlinda Mustafa, Jörg Großschedl
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 learni...
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Notice of duplicate publication: Semantic partitioning facilitates memory for object location through category-partition cueing Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-18
Published in Memory (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Semantic details in autobiographical memory narratives increase with age among younger adults Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Stephanie Matijevic, Siobhan Hoscheidt, Lee Ryan
It is well documented that older adults, compared to younger adults, produce fewer episodic details and more semantic details when recalling autobiographical memories. However, group comparisons ha...
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The animacy (bias) effect in recognition: testing the influence of intentionality of learning and retrieval quality Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Sara B. Félix, Josefa N.S. Pandeirada
The animacy effect, a memory advantage for animate/living over inanimate/non-living items, is well-documented in free recall, but unclear in recognition memory. This might relate to the encoding ta...
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Measuring narrative identity: rater coding versus questionnaire-based approaches Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Tine B. Gehrt, Niels Peter Nielsen, Rick H. Hoyle, David C. Rubin, Dorthe Berntsen
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...
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Seeing what you believe: recognition memory for evolutionary tree structure is affected by students’ misconceptions Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Laura R. Novick, Jingyi Liu
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 ...
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The role of prior familiarisation and meaningfulness of verbal and visual stimuli on directed forgetting Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Yi-Pei Lo, Huiyu Ding, Jonathon Whitlock, Lili Sahakyan
Intentional forgetting of unwanted information is a crucial cognitive function that is often studied with directed forgetting (DF) procedure, whereby cuing some study materials with Forget (F) inst...
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Young adults’ personal and relationship memories: recollections of self, siblings, and family Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Demet Kara, Patricia J. Bauer, Başak Şahin-Acar
We investigated the phenomenological and narrative characteristics of young adults’ self- and other-related memories within the context of significant relationships. We also examined whether partic...
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Effects of psychopathic traits on preferential recall and recognition of emotionally evocative photos Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Rheanna J. Remmel, Andrea L. Glenn, Alexandra P. Harrison
Psychopathic traits are associated with impaired emotional processing. The present study examines the potential association between psychopathic traits and memory for emotional stimuli. Although a ...
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Primacy (and recency) effects in delayed recognition of items from instances of repeated events Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Eva Rubínová, Heather L. Price
In repeated-event paradigms where participants are asked to recall details of a sequence of similar instances they viewed/experienced previously, more accurate details are typically recalled from t...
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An examination of individual differences in levels of processing Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Nash Unsworth, Ashley L. Miller
The present study examined individual differences in levels of processing. Participants completed a cued recall task in which they made either rhyme or semantic judgements on pairs of items. Pupill...
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The stability of life script and life story events of Nigerian young adults across religion and gender Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Rahila R. Jatau, Burcu Kaya Kızılöz
The cultural life scripts are shared semantic knowledge of the expected life course in a given culture characterised by a bump for positive events in the second and third life decades, but none for...
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Dimensions of a hyper memory: investigating the factors modulating exceptional retrieval in a single case of highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM) Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Jessica Talbot, Daniele Gatti, Marta Boccalari, Michela Marchetti, Danilo Mitaritonna, Gianmarco Convertino, Mara Stockner, Giuliana Mazzoni
Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM) is a rare form of exceptional memory, characterised by an ability to recall personal episodes in response to dates. The single case “DT” is one of les...
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Do childhood experiences influence associations between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and positive autobiographical memories among military veteran students? An exploratory study Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Alejandro Miguel-Alvaro, Brett A. Messman, Nicole H. Weiss, Ateka A. Contractor
Evidence links posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and features of positive autobiographical memories (accessibility, vividness, coherence, sharing, emotional intensity, distancing). Ther...
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The role of culture and semantic organization in working memory updating Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Krystal R. Leger, Hannah R. Snyder, Aysecan Boduroglu, Angela Gutchess
Westerners tend to relate items in a categorical manner, whereas Easterners focus more on functional relationships. The present study extended research on semantic organization in long-term memory ...
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The benefits of item-method-directed forgetting Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Phillip N. Goernert, Barry Corenblum
The present experiments examined the encoding and retrieval conditions in an item-method-directed forget (IMDF) study that included a novel control condition. In the IMDF condition, half of the ite...
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Autobiographical phenomenology of memories of fiction Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Osman Görkem Çetin, Sami Gülgöz
Most autobiographical memories are based on real-life experiences, but memories of fiction have many similarities to real-life autobiographical memories. However, the phenomenological nature of thi...
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Event centrality in social anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Mirjam Vermeulen, Amarendra Gandhi, Filip Van Den Eede, Filip Raes, Julie Krans
Event centrality is defined by the extent to which a memory of an event has become central to an individual’s identity and life story. Previous research predominantly focused on the link between ev...
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Deficits in memory metacognitive efficiency in late adulthood are related to distinct brain profile Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Francesco Pupillo, Sandra Düzel, Simone Kühn, Ulman Lindenberger, Yee Lee Shing
The tendency of falsely remembering events that did not happen in the past increases with age. This is particularly evident in cases in which features presented at study are re-presented at test in...
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The self-bias in working memory: the favorability of self-referential stimuli in resource allocation Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Shouhang Yin, Antao Chen
Self-representations guide and shape our thoughts and behaviour. People usually exhibit inherent biases in perception, attention, and memory to favour the information associated with themselves ove...
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“I heard it before … or not”: time-course of ERP response and behavioural correlates associated with false recognition memory Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Nieves Pérez-Mata, Jacobo Albert, Luis Carretié, Sara López-Martín, Alberto J. Sánchez-Carmona
Electrophysiological and behavioural correlates of true and false memories were examined in the Deese/Roediger-McDermont (DRM) paradigm. A mass univariate approach for analysing event-related poten...
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Time and memory distrust shape the dynamics of recollection and belief-in-occurrence Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Yikang Zhang, Henry Otgaar, Robert A. Nash, Linda Rosar
The current study examined how people’s metamemory judgments of recollection and belief-in-occurrence change over time. Furthermore, we examined to what extent these judgments are affected by memor...
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Semantic partitioning facilitates memory for object location through category-partition cueing Memory (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Xinyi Lu, Mona J.H. Zhu, Evan F. Risko
In our lived environments, objects are often semantically organised (e.g., cookware and cutlery are placed close together in the kitchen). Across four experiments, we examined how semantic partitio...