Limits on the role of retrieval cues in memory for actions: Enactment effects in the absence of object cues in the environment

Steffens, Melanie C.; Buchner, Axel; Wender, Karl F.; Decker, Claudia

doi:10.3758/bf03192919

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“…Each phrase included a verb and a noun, and all experimental materials composed of 3 or 4 Chinese characters. The materials did not involve phrases related to body parts or the objects in the laboratory (Steffens et al, 2007).…”

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Sememe Heredity of Action Semantics: Evidence From the Priming Effect and Prospective Memory

Wang

2020

Front. Psychol.

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The sememe heredity of action semantics may be affected by the related association of a verb or noun in an action phrase and the related association between one action phrase and another. The motor encoding theory and the five-component view of the subject-performed task supported by the verb's specificity highly promote the enactment effect. However, the episodic integration theory emphasizes the role of semantic integration between the verb and noun on the enactment effect. In this study, a subject-performed task was combined with a priming paradigm and found that verbsemantic priming quantity was more significant than that of noun-semantic priming quantity under motor encoding in Experiment 1. Besides, it was observed that the verbsemantic association might play a more significant role in the sememe heredity of action semantics. Therefore, in Experiment 2, a subject-performed task was combined with the dual task of prospective memory. Results showed that the accuracy of prospective memory targets related to the learning phrases was significantly higher compared to that of the prospective memory targets unrelated to the learning phrases. Besides, the above difference is more evident verbally compared to motor encoding conditions. Thus, the sememe heredity of action semantics may rely on the related association of action semantic contents rather than on the semantic processing form of external motor encoding.

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Sememe Heredity of Action Semantics: Evidence From the Priming Effect and Prospective Memory

Wang

2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…Half the phrases (48) were used for study, and the other half (48) were used for counter-balanced distractors. The phrases used in the study were independent of parts of the body (e.g., “scratching the head”) and did not refer to objects in the laboratory (e.g., “banging on the table”), because these types of phrases would have clear retrieval clues and could be recalled easily, thereby interfering with the SPT effect (Steffens et al, 2007 ).…”

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The Role of Item-Specific Information for the Retrieval Awareness of Performed Actions

Wang

2018

Front. Psychol.

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Research on action memory has been pursued for more than 30 years, but it is still unclear what drives the recollection process of performed actions. In this study, we used the remember/know paradigm and designed two experiments to examine the relation between item-specific processing and retrieval awareness of subject-performed tasks (SPT). The results showed that SPT allows remember responses in remember-know judgments more easily; that is, SPT can enhance the frequency of recalling re-collective experience. Item-specific processing can improve the memory performance and the proportion of remember judgments of verbal tasks (VT), but it does not improve the memory performance and proportion of remember judgments of SPT, indicating that SPT can enhance item-specific processing, which leads to more remember responses in judgment. The relation between item-specific processing and retrieval awareness of SPT is also discussed.

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“…Moreover, this interactive context integration could be obtained in a verbal learning condition if participants were instructed before study that they could use context objects to aid recall (Experiment 3). The interactive context integration effect also held if objects were present only at study, indicating that mental reinstatement at test is sufficient to increase recall (Steffens, Buchner, Wender, & Decker, 2007). In a nutshell, one reason why actions are recalled particularly well is that they direct attention toward objects in the environment that can then be used as retrieval cues.…”

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“…None of the objects was overly salient by being unexpected in the room because with very salient objects participants in the verbal learning condition also can use the objects as cues (cf. Steffens et al, 2007). An additional five objects served as distractors (e.g., a book was always present).…”

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Interactive context integration in children? Evidence from an action memory study

Mecklenbräuker

Steffens

Jelenec

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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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Limits on the role of retrieval cues in memory for actions: Enactment effects in the absence of object cues in the environment

Cited by 17 publications

References 66 publications

Sememe Heredity of Action Semantics: Evidence From the Priming Effect and Prospective Memory

Sememe Heredity of Action Semantics: Evidence From the Priming Effect and Prospective Memory

The Role of Item-Specific Information for the Retrieval Awareness of Performed Actions

Interactive context integration in children? Evidence from an action memory study

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