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The mnemonic effect of central and peripheral misinformation on social media Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Ezgi Bilgin, Qi Wang
The increasing use of social media has amplified the spread of false information. Yet little is known about the mnemonic consequences associated with exposure to different types of false informatio...
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The positive dimension of schizotypy is associated with self-report measures of autobiographical memory and future thinking but not experimenter-scored indices Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Lucie S. Reed, Lisa H. Evans
The ability to remember our past and to imagine the future are critical to our sense of self. Previous research has indicated that they are disrupted in schizophrenia. However, it is unclear (i) wh...
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Retracted memories in the general population: are there differences between eastern and western countries? Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Chunlin Li, Henry Otgaar, Peter Muris, Cui Chen
The main purpose of the current studies was to examine retracted experiences in the general population from various cultural backgrounds. More specifically, in two studies, we examined the details ...
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The reminiscence bump and the self: evidence from five studies on positive and negative memories Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Antonietta Curci, Fabiana Battista, Tiziana Lanciano, Francesco D. d’Ovidio, Martin A. Conway
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 studi...
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Testing memory Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Henry Otgaar, Mark L. Howe
Published in Memory (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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In my life: memory, self and The Beatles Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Shazia Akhtar, Martin A. Conway, Lucy V. Justice, Catriona M. Morrison
In a large-scale study, we asked people for their memories of The Beatles. Over four thousand respondents completed an online questionnaire. The memory could be related to a song, album, event, TV,...
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The role of mediators for the pretesting effect Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Johannes Bartl, Oliver Kliegl, Karl-Heinz T. Bäuml
Taking a pretest (e.g., smoke – ?) before material is studied (smoke – fog) can improve later recall of that material, compared to material which was initially only studied. The goal of the present...
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False recall is associated with larger caudate in males but not in females Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Xuhao Shao, Ao Li, Zehua Wang, Gui Xue, Bi Zhu
After learning semantically related words, some people are more likely than others to incorrectly recall unstudied but semantically related lures (i.e., Deese-Roediger-McDermott [DRM] false recall)...
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Semantic partitioning facilitates memory for object location through category-partition cueing Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 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...
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Is “memory-for-when” universal? Group and individual variability in temporal position memory for words, faces, and classrooms Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Peter F. Delaney, Agustin J. de Leon Guerrero Jr, Myranda Cook, Todd C. Jones
Many contemporary theories of memory assume that everyone automatically stores temporal contextual information about all types of encountered information, yet most studies on this topic have used w...
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Investigating the neural basis of schematic false memories by examining schematic and lure pattern similarity Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Catherine M. Carpenter, Nancy A. Dennis
Schemas allow us to make assumptions about the world based upon previous experiences and aid in memory organisation and retrieval. However, a reliance on schemas may also result in increased false ...
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Anodal tDCS of the left inferior parietal cortex enhances memory for correct information without affecting recall of misinformation Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Céline C. Haciahmet, Maximilian A. Friehs, Christian Frings, Bernhard Pastötter
False memories during testimony are an enormous challenge for criminal trials. Exposure to post-event misinformation can lead to inadvertent creation of false memories, known as the misinformation ...
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Comparing two unitisation manipulations: effects on familiarity, recollection-based recognition, and semantic interference Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Fan Zhou, Yingjie Jiang, Yang Yue
The recognition of associative memory can be significantly influenced by the use of an encoding strategy known as unitisation, which has been implemented through various manipulations. However, [Sh...
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A preliminary experimental test of the crossed influences between the valence of collective memory and collective future thinking Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Octavia Ionescu, Jean Louis Tavani, Julie Collange
This research experimentally examined the crossed influences between the emotional valence of collective memory and collective future thinking. As remembering the past and imagining the future are ...
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The effects of forewarning and divided attention on context retrieval in false recognition Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Hanyue Liu, Jianqin Wang, Qianyun Gao, Yang Lu, Chenggong Wang, Li Zheng, Lin Li, Xiuyan Guo
After studying a list of words that are semantically associated to a critical lure, participants are more likely to attribute a falsely recognised critical lure to the context of its strong than we...
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The flashbulb-like nature of memory for the first COVID-19 case and the impact of the emergency. A cross-national survey Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Tiziana Lanciano, Federica Alfeo, Antonietta Curci, Claudia Marin, Angela Maria D’Uggento, Diletta Decarolis, Sezin Öner, Kristine Anthony, Krystian Barzykowski, Miguel Bascón, Alec Benavides, Anne Cabildo, Manuel Luis de la Mata-Benítez, İrem Ergen, Katarzyna Filip, Alena Gofman, Steve M. J. Janssen, Zhao Kai-bin, Ioanna Markostamou, Jose Antonio Matías-García, Veronika Nourkova, Sebastian Oleksiak
Flashbulb memories (FBMs) refer to vivid and long-lasting autobiographical memories for the circumstances in which people learned of a shocking and consequential public event. A cross-national stud...
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The effects of eye movements on the content and characteristics of unpleasant autobiographical memories: an extended replication study Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 H.I. Meckling, M.H. Nauta, W.J.P.J. van Hout, I. Wessel
Experimental studies show that vividness and emotionality of aversive memories decrease after recall with eye movements. We aimed at replicating this finding. Relatedly, consistent with Conway’s vi...
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The COVID-19 pandemic as autobiographical period: evidence from an event dating study Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Öykü Ekinci, Norman R. Brown
The COVID-19 Pandemic is undoubtedly one of the most impactful and ubiquitous public events in recent history. In this study, we focused on how it affected the organisation of autobiographical memo...
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The effect of emotional valence and font size on metacognition and memory Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Karina Agadzhanyan, Alan D. Castel
Predictions about memory involve the use of metacognition, and metacognition can rely on various cues. The present study investigated metacognition and recall performance when to-be-remembered word...
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False memory-guided eye movements: insights from a DRM-Saccade paradigm Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Lauren Knott, Damien Litchfield, Tim Donovan, John E. Marsh
The Deese-Roediger and McDermott (DRM) paradigm and visually guided saccade tasks are both prominent research tools in their own right. This study introduces a novel DRM-Saccade paradigm, merging b...
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Recovered memories in psychotherapy: a survey of practicing psychotherapists in Germany Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Jonas Schemmel, Lisa Datschewski-Verch, Renate Volbert
We report on a survey of 258 psychotherapists from Germany, focusing on their experiences with memory recovery in general, suggestive therapy procedures, evaluations of recovered memories, and memo...
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Cross-cultural comparison of the neural correlates of true and false memory retrieval Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Krystal R. Leger, Isu Cho, Ioannis Valoumas, Danielle Schwartz, Ross W. Mair, Joshua Oon Soo Goh, Angela Gutchess
Prior work has shown Americans have higher levels of memory specificity than East Asians. Neuroimaging studies have not investigated mechanisms that account for cultural differences at retrieval. I...
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Mechanisms of long-term repetition priming in recognising speech in noise Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Liam J. Gleason, Wendy S. Francis
Recognition of speech in noise is facilitated when spoken sentences are repeated a few minutes later, but the levels of representation involved in this effect have not been specified. Three experim...
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On the cost and benefits of restudying: exploring the list strength effect in self-guided learning Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Skylar J. Laursen, Brooke C. T. Farrell, Chris M. Fiacconi
Across five experiments we examined whether restudying a self-selected subset of items impairs memory for the remaining non-restudied items, and enhances memory for the restudied items. This questi...
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Did I text you? The influence of the mode of transmission on destination memory Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Raquel Pinto, Pedro B. Albuquerque
In a society where people often communicate through digital technology, it is crucial to investigate whether the transmission mode influences destination memory performance (our capacity to remembe...
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Misinformation in social interaction: examining the role of discussion Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Magda Saraiva, Margarida Vaz Garrido
Memory is a reconstructive process that is prone to intrusions and distortions. These processes can be amplified by the emergence and propagation of false information in the social environment. Whi...
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Intrinsic functional connectivity in medial temporal lobe networks is associated with susceptibility to misinformation Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Alexander Ratzan, Matthew Siegel, Jessica M. Karanian, Ayanna K. Thomas, Elizabeth Race
Memory is notoriously fallible and susceptible to misinformation. Yet little is known about the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms that render individuals vulnerable to this type of false m...
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The frequency and cueing mechanisms of involuntary autobiographical memories while driving Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Andrew Laughland, Lia Kvavilashvili
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 t...
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Face masks degrade our ability to remember face-name associations more than predicted by judgments of learning Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Alexandra M. Rodriguez, Sara B. Festini
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, face masks became required attire. Face masks obstruct the bottom portion of faces, restricting face processing. The present study examined the influence face ...
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Retrieval fluency inflates perceived preparation for difficult problems Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Nadia M. Brashier, Catherine H. Ho, T’Ajmal K. Hogue, Daniel L. Schacter
When faced with a difficult problem, people often rely on past experiences. While remembering clearly helps us reach solutions, can retrieval also lead to misperceptions of our abilities? In three ...
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Alleged false accusations of abuse: characteristics, consequences, and coping Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Sanne T. L. Houben, Linsey Raymaekers, Leonie Loop, Desiree Vandervelt, Lawrence Patihis, Melanie Sauerland
We have very little knowledge about the characteristics and consequences of false abuse accusations. Sixty-one members of a German support organisation for allegedly falsely accused individuals pro...
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Judgments of learning reflect the encoding of contexts, not items: evidence from a test of recognition exclusion Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Belgin Ünal, Aaron S. Benjamin
Two sources of evidence seem to be shared by judgments of past recognition and judgments of future performance: item memory or familiarity (i.e., memory for the item independent of the context in w...
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Younger and older adults’ memory of past feelings surrounding an election Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Sagarika Devarayapuram Ramakrishnan, Hiba Kausar, Sarah J. Barber
People often misremember their past feelings, especially when recalling their prior mood as opposed to their specific emotions in response to events. A previous study also found that the direction ...
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Early childhood memories of individuals convicted of sexual offences Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Natalie Martschuk, Danielle Arlanda Harris, Martine B. Powell, Jane Goodman-Delahunty
This study used innovative transdisciplinary methods to describe the nature and extent of early childhood memories recalled by 84 adults convicted of sexual offences. The timing of the memories, le...
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Grandiose narcissism influences the phenomenology of remembered past and imagined future events Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Ellen F. Finch, Sarah E. Kalinowski, Jill M. Hooley, Daniel L. Schacter
Little empirical work has examined future thinking in narcissistic grandiosity. We here extend prior work finding that people scoring high in grandiosity have self-bolstering tendencies in remember...
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Witnesses’ susceptibility to misleading post-event information delivered in a social media-style video Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Stefanie J. Sharman, Meaghan C. Danby, Atticus D. Gray
In many criminal cases, outcomes rely on eyewitness evidence. Exposure to misleading information after an event reduces the accuracy of witnesses’ memories. In some circumstances, warnings about mi...
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Direct retrieval as a theory of involuntary autobiographical memories: evaluation and future directions Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Dorthe Berntsen
I evaluate the conception of direct retrieval as originally formulated in the Self-Memory System model (Conway & Pleydell-Pearce [2000]. The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-me...
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No evidence of fast mapping in healthy adults using an implicit memory measure: failures to replicate the lexical competition results of Coutanche and Thompson-Schill (2014) Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Kshipra Gurunandan, Elisa Cooper, Roni Tibon, Richard N. Henson, Andrea Greve
Fast mapping (FM) is a hypothetical, incidental learning process that allows rapid acquisition of new words. Using an implicit reaction time measure in a FM paradigm, Coutanche and Thompson-Schill ...
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Self- and other-focused autobiographical memories of life story events across cultures Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Alejandra Zaragoza Scherman, Sinué Salgado, Zhifang Shao, Dorthe Berntsen
Autobiographical memory and personal life stories are typically conceived as memories about the self. However, personal life stories often contain information about important events from other peop...
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Factors that contribute to an inability to remember an important aspect of a traumatic event Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Sandra J. E. Langeslag, Zachary W. Posey
Dissociative amnesia is controversial. We tested other factors that could contribute to an inability to remember an important aspect of a traumatic event: how traumatic the event was, organic amnes...
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Retrieval practice reduces relative forgetting over time Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Anna T. Nickl, Karl-Heinz T. Bäuml
There is overwhelming evidence in the literature that retrieval practice of studied material can lead to better final recall than restudy of the same material. Far less clear is whether this recall...
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Effects of cueing multiple memories of eating on people’s judgments about their diet Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Christopher P. Delivett, Jason M. Thomas, Claire V. Farrow, Robert A. Nash
Past research shows that recalling a single positive health-related experience, such as exercising, can encourage people’s subsequent healthy behaviours. In contrast, we reasoned that attempting to...
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Exploring the roles of distinctiveness and performance anticipation in the Attentional Boost Effect Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Daniele Saraulli, Neil W. Mulligan, Stefano Saraulli, Pietro Spataro
We tested the validity of two alternative accounts of the Attentional Boost Effect (ABE) – the finding that words associated with to-be-responded targets are recognized better than words associated...
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Keeping track of reality: embedding visual memory in natural behaviour Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Corinna S. Martarelli, Sandra Chiquet, Matthias Ertl
Since immersive virtual reality (IVR) emerged as a research method in the 1980s, the focus has been on the similarities between IVR and actual reality. In this vein, it has been suggested that IVR ...
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Visual perspective in autobiographical memories of self-incongruent episodes Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Thomas M. Lukaschewski, Gerd T. Waldhauser, Roy Dings, Rebekka Heinen, Carlos Alexandre Gomes, Albert Newen, Nikolai Axmacher
It is widely assumed that autobiographical memory relies on an integration of episodic memory with the self-model. We hypothesise that self-memory integration depends critically on self-congruence....
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Memory error speed predicts subsequent accuracy for recognition misses but not false alarms Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Melisa Akan, Elif Yüvrük, Jeffrey J. Starns
The current study aims to test whether faster recognition memory errors tend to result from stronger misleading retrieval, making them harder to correct in subsequent decisions than slower errors, ...
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Collective interactions, collaborative inhibition, and shared spatial knowledge Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Teriitutea Quesnot, Bernard Guelton
Research on spatial mental representations focuses on individual mental maps and spatial knowledge. This exploratory study investigates instead collective interactions, collaborative memory, and th...
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Item-method directed forgetting and perceived truth of news headlines Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Magdalena Abel, Karl-Heinz T. Bäuml
Research on item-method directed forgetting (IMDF) suggests that memories can be voluntarily forgotten. IMDF is however usually examined with relatively simple study materials, such as single words...
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Listeners’ effects on autobiographical memory for recent events Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Azriel Grysman, Melanie Baime, Ethan Cantor
The current study tested the effects of attentive versus distracted listening on both speakers and listeners in recall of an autobiographical memory. Participants included 128 pairs of friends who ...
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Specific autobiographical memories are a resource for identity strength among mature but not emerging adults Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Denise R. Beike, Holly E. Cole, Carmen R. Merrick
Four studies, three pre-planned on Open Science Framework, with 2296 participants explored the potential role of recollecting autobiographical memories in enhancing the sense of identity. Among eme...
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On the retrieval of earliest memories Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Berivan Ece, Nilüfer Göktaş
Earliest memories were examined with respect to recollection type (i.e., remember-know), retrieval type (i.e., direct-generative), retrieval speed, and memory fluency (i.e., phonemic, semantic, and...
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Priming in the autobiographical memory system: implications and future directions Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 John H. Mace
Studies examining priming in autobiographical memory are fewer in number (some two dozen) compared to other areas (e.g., semantic memory priming), which have seen hundreds of studies. Nevertheless,...
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Exploring techniques for encoding spoken instructions in working memory: a comparison of verbal rehearsal, motor imagery, self-enactment and action observation Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Tian-xiao Yang, Richard J. Allen, Amanda H. Waterman, Agnieszka J. Graham, Xiao-min Su, Yan Gao
Encoding and recalling spoken instructions is subject to working memory capacity limits. Previous research suggests action-based encoding facilitates instruction recall, but has not directly compar...
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Effects of past and future autobiographical thinking on the working self-concept Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Arnaud D’Argembeau, Claudia Garcia Jimenez
While the role of autobiographical memory in self-representation is well established, the identity function of future thinking has received much less attention. Yet, most people commonly imagine fu...
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My child and I: self- and child-reference effects among parents with self-worth contingent on children’s performance Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Meng-Run Zhang, Florrie Fei-Yin Ng, Ying-Yi Hong, Jun Wei, Ru-De Liu, Shun-Lam Chan
Research shows that parents’ self-worth may be contingent on their children’s performance, with implications for their interactions with children. This study examined whether such child-based worth...
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Music cues impact the emotionality but not richness of episodic memory retrieval Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Kelly Jakubowski, Dana Walker, Hongdi Wang
Previous studies have found that music evokes more vivid and emotional memories of autobiographical events than various other retrieval cues. However, it is possible such findings can be explained ...
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Long-term memory for movie details: selective decay for verbal information at one week Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Matteo Frisoni, Alessia Selvaggio, Annalisa Tosoni, Carlo Sestieri
Mnemonic representations of complex events are multidimensional, incorporating information about objects and characters, their interactions and their spatial–temporal context. The present study inv...
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Episodic memory and recognition are influenced by cues’ sensory modality: comparing odours, music and faces using virtual reality Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Lucile Rey, Clément Désoche, Anne-Lise Saive, Marc Thévenet, Samuel Garcia, Barbara Tillmann, Jane Plailly
Most everyday experiences are multisensory, and all senses can trigger the conscious re-experience of unique personal events embedded in their specific spatio-temporal context. Yet, little is known...
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Catching wanted people at the border: prospective person memory and face matching in border control decisions Memory (IF 2.519) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Camryn N. Yuen, Ryan J. Fitzgerald, Stefana Juncu
Border control officers may be on the lookout for wanted people while they verify that travellers match their passport photos. We developed a novel experimental paradigm to investigate whether peop...