Attentional influences on memory formation: A tale of a not-so-simple story

Ortiz-Tudela, Javier; Milliken, Bruce; Jiménez, Luís; Lupiáñez, Juan

doi:10.3758/s13421-017-0784-2

Cited by 17 publications

(22 citation statements)

References 33 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Lastly, and perhaps more interestingly, manipulations of congruency at the item level, which undoubtedly imply learning about specific items, still did not affect our participants' ability to recognize old items in any differential way. The absence of statistically significant differences when using null hypothesis significance testing, together with the use of Bayesian statistics to assess the likelihood of a null result in the presence of a true effect, greatly supports the claim that conflict at encoding does not directly lead to a better encoding of the target information (see Muhmenthaler & Meier, 2019;Ortiz-Tudela et al, 2016;Ortiz-Tudela et al, 2018;Ptok, Thomson, Humphreys, & Watter, 2019, for similar findings). Several accounts of cognitive control depict LWPCE and CSE as a reinstatement of a previous response set linked with specific stimulus features.…”

mentioning

confidence: 62%

“…The hypothesis of conflict-enhanced memory has been recently examined through several studies using different paradigms (Krebs, Boehler, De Belder, & Egner, 2015;Ortiz-Tudela, Milliken, Botta, LaPointe, & Lupiañez, 2016;Ortiz-Tudela, Milliken, Jiménez, & Lupiáñez, 2018;Rosner, D'Angelo, MacLellan, & Milliken, 2015a). For instance, Krebs et al (2015) used a face-word Stroop task, in which participants were asked to respond to the gender of a given set of faces that were overlaid with a distracting word (i.e., "MAN" or "WOMAN").…”

Section: Conflict Enhanced Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Increasing control improves further control, but it does not enhance memory for the targets in a face–word Stroop task

et al. 2020

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Recent research on the dynamics between attentional and memory processes have outlined the idea that applying control in a conflicting situation directly leads to enhanced episodic memory of the processed information. However, in spite of a small subset of studies supporting this claim, the majority of the evidence in the field seems to support the opposite pattern. In this study, we used a face-word Stroop task to enforce different control modes either from trial to trial or in an item-specific manner. Both manipulations of congruency proved to be effective in making participants' responses to conflicting stimuli more efficient over time by applying a trial-specific control mode. However, these manipulations had no impact on memory performance on a surprise recognition memory test. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt at measuring the memory consequences of the application of specific control modes at the trial level. The results reported here call for caution and possibly reconceptualization of the relationship between cognitive control and memory.

show abstract

mentioning

confidence: 62%

Section: Conflict Enhanced Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Increasing control improves further control, but it does not enhance memory for the targets in a face–word Stroop task

et al. 2020

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…For example, Ortiz-Tudela and colleagues [ 47 ] reported that context-incongruent objects were detected more rapidly than context congruent objects, but they resulted in more discrimination errors in a recognition task. Ortiz-Tudela et al [ 48 ] also reported that incongruent objects were better detected but worse identified. Interestingly, while the previous studies that documented effects related to out-of-context targets typically used a much longer stimulus exposure duration, in the current experiments, we used a short presentation of the visual scenes (i.e., 500 ms).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Contextually mismatching objects are also more likely to be retrieved successfully after a short delay period [ 42 , 45 , 46 ]. It is, though, worth noting that context-incongruent facilitation appears to be extinguished at longer memory delays [ 47 , 48 ]. In the present study, we wanted to assess whether, and how, STM is affected by the interplay between crossmodal semantic congruence and the contextual congruence of the target object.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Crossmodal Semantic Congruence Interacts with Object Contextual Consistency in Complex Visual Scenes to Enhance Short-Term Memory Performance

et al. 2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Object sounds can enhance the attentional selection and perceptual processing of semantically-related visual stimuli. However, it is currently unknown whether crossmodal semantic congruence also affects the post-perceptual stages of information processing, such as short-term memory (STM), and whether this effect is modulated by the object consistency with the background visual scene. In two experiments, participants viewed everyday visual scenes for 500 ms while listening to an object sound, which could either be semantically related to the object that served as the STM target at retrieval or not. This defined crossmodal semantically cued vs. uncued targets. The target was either in- or out-of-context with respect to the background visual scene. After a maintenance period of 2000 ms, the target was presented in isolation against a neutral background, in either the same or different spatial position as in the original scene. The participants judged the same vs. different position of the object and then provided a confidence judgment concerning the certainty of their response. The results revealed greater accuracy when judging the spatial position of targets paired with a semantically congruent object sound at encoding. This crossmodal facilitatory effect was modulated by whether the target object was in- or out-of-context with respect to the background scene, with out-of-context targets reducing the facilitatory effect of object sounds. Overall, these findings suggest that the presence of the object sound at encoding facilitated the selection and processing of the semantically related visual stimuli, but this effect depends on the semantic configuration of the visual scene.

show abstract

“…However, we see this conflict as positive in that it demonstrates that prediction error is not a fragile manipulation and in fact can be quite blunt. As long as expectations are violated, new learning has the potential to update old learning (Krawczyk et al, 2017; but also see Ortiz-Tudela et al, 2018). However, it is unclear why an obvious violation of expectations worked here while only very subtle and specific violations have been effective in other studies (e.g., Forcato et al, 2009).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Generalising reconsolidation: Spatial context and prediction error

Kiley

Parks

2020

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Activating a previously consolidated memory trace brings it back into a labile state where it must then undergo a re-stabilisation process known as reconsolidation. During this process memories are susceptible to interference and may be updated with new information. In the studies showing this effect in human episodic memory, the reconsolidation process has been triggered primarily using spatial context or prediction error manipulations to reactivate an established memory. However, these studies have produced conflicting results, showing both that spatial context is necessary and sufficient to trigger reconsolidation and that prediction error is necessary and sufficient to trigger the process. We examined this conflict in two experiments, one investigating the role of context cues and another investigating the role of prediction error. In Experiment 1, spatial context triggered a reconsolidation process and prediction error was irrelevant. In Experiment 2, prediction error triggered reconsolidation, and spatial context cues were irrelevant. These findings replicate prior research but add to the puzzle concerning the roles of these two means of triggering reconsolidation.

show abstract

Attentional influences on memory formation: A tale of a not-so-simple story

Cited by 17 publications

References 33 publications

Increasing control improves further control, but it does not enhance memory for the targets in a face–word Stroop task

Increasing control improves further control, but it does not enhance memory for the targets in a face–word Stroop task

Crossmodal Semantic Congruence Interacts with Object Contextual Consistency in Complex Visual Scenes to Enhance Short-Term Memory Performance

Generalising reconsolidation: Spatial context and prediction error

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About