The influence of item properties on association-memory

Madan, Christopher R.; Glaholt, Mackenzie G.; Caplan, Jeremy B.

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2010.03.001

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“…relations (see Madan, Glaholt, & Caplan, 2010;Paivio, 1969Paivio, , 1979. In this connection, Brainerd, Yang, Howe, Reyna, and Mills (2008c) conducted a semantic analysis of the DRM list pool (Roediger, Watson, McDermott, & Gallo, 2001 This brief excursion into the semantics of the DRM paradigm reveals why it was such a promising place to begin to evaluate the developmental reversal prediction: DRM lists are so imbued with interword semantic relations and so high on semantic properties that encourage the processing of such relations that the paradigm ought to be acutely sensitive to known developmental trends in semantic processing.…”

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Theoretical and forensic implications of developmental studies of the DRM illusion

2010

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In the study of false memory, developmental research on the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) illusion has played a pivotal role in theory evaluation and forensic application. The extensive developmental DRM literature (55 experiments published in English-language journals) provided the first clear evidence that false memories can increase dramatically from early childhood onward, whereas traditional ideas about cognitive development predict steady declines.

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Theoretical and forensic implications of developmental studies of the DRM illusion

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“…Critically, as with most other studies we reviewed, both Madan et al (2010) and Criss et al (2011) depended on normative word frequency. If the explanation based on the contextual fan/frequency trade-off seems convoluted, consider the large-scale familiarization study with Chinese characters that we discussed earlier (Reder et al, 2016).…”

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“…Two recent comprehensive studies on how word frequency affects cued-recall provide additional support for our position (Criss et al, 2011;Madan et al, 2010). Both studies evaluated separately the effect of cue and target frequency by manipulating them orthogonally.…”

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“…HF targets were better recalled than LF targets. When it comes to the cue, however, Madan et al (2010) found no effect of word frequency, while Criss et al (2011) found that while HF cues were more effective than LF cues, the effect was much smaller than that for the target. Criss et al (2011) found those results surprising and argued that most memory models would predict a benefit for LF cues, similar to single item recognition, either because they better match their distinctive features in the memory trace (McClelland & Chappell, 1998;Shiffrin & Steyvers, 1997), or because they have fewer preexperimental associations (Dennis & Humphreys, 2001;Reder et al, 2000).…”

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“… Cued recall is better for high-frequency cues and targets (Criss, Aue, & Smith, 2011;Madan et al, 2010), but only with pure lists (Clark & Burchett, 1994).  Chinese characters experimentally familiarized at high frequency are easier to associate to one another as the compound cue and to the English language response term than those familiarized at low frequency (Reder et al, 2016).…”

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Frequency Effects on Memory: A Resource-Limited Theory

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We present a review of frequency effects in memory, accompanied by a theory of memory, according to which the storage of new information in long-term memory (LTM) depletes a limited pool of working memory (WM) resources as an inverse function of item strength. We support the theory by showing that items with stronger representations in LTM (e.g. high frequency items) are easier to store, bind to context, and bind to one another; that WM resources are involved in storage and retrieval from LTM; that WM capacity is greater for stronger, more familiar stimuli. We present a novel analysis of preceding item strength, in which we show from eight existing studies that memory for an item is higher if during study it was preceded by a stronger item (e.g. a high frequency word; HF). This effect is cumulative (the more prior items are HF, the better), continuous (memory proportional to word frequency of preceding item), interacts with current item strength (larger for weaker items) and interacts with lag (decreases as the lag between the current and prior study item increases). A computational model that implements the theory is presented, which accounts for these effects. We discuss related phenomena that the model/theory can explain.

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The effects of linguistic relationships among paired associates on verbal self‐generation and recognition memory

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Previous studies have shown that self-generated information is better remembered than information that has been read passively. To further examine this subsequent memory effect, we investigated the effect of five different linguistic relationships on memory encoding. Ninety subjects were administered 60 paired associates during an encoding condition: 30 of the second words from each pair were to be read aloud and 30 were to be self-generated from clues as to the correct word. Word pairs were composed of five linguistic relationships: category, rhyme, opposite, synonym, and association. Subsequently, subjects were presented with the words that were read or generated in a forced recognition memory task. Overall, reading accuracy was higher than generation accuracy during the encoding phase (all P < 0.001). During the recognition phase, subjects' performance was better on the generate than on the read conditions for opposite, synonym, category, and association relationships (all P < 0.05), with no difference in the rhyme relationship. These results confirm previous findings that self-generated information is better remembered than read information and suggest that this advantage may be mediated by using opposite, synonym, category, and association relationships, while rhyme relationship may not extend such an advantage. These findings may have implications for future studies of memory interventions in healthy controls and subjects with cognitive impairments.

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The influence of item properties on association-memory

Cited by 77 publications

References 59 publications

Theoretical and forensic implications of developmental studies of the DRM illusion

Theoretical and forensic implications of developmental studies of the DRM illusion

Frequency Effects on Memory: A Resource-Limited Theory

The effects of linguistic relationships among paired associates on verbal self‐generation and recognition memory

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