The Survival Processing Memory Effect Should Generalise to Source Memory, but It Doesn’t

Bröder, Arndt; Krüger, Nelli; Schütte, Susanne

doi:10.4236/psych.2011.29135

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“…The elaborative-encoding view advocated here could also help to integrate previous findings on source memory. For instance, in the study of Bröder et al (2011), participants rated the relevance of items according to their relevance in a standard survival processing scenario. The words were placed at different positions at the screen, but location was entirely irrelevant to the rating task.…”

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Remembering the place with the tiger: Survival processing can enhance source memory

Kroneisen

Bell

2018

Psychon Bull Rev

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Rating the relevance of words for survival in the grasslands of a foreign land often leads to a memory advantage. However, it is as yet unclear whether the survival processing effect generalizes to source memory. Here, we examined whether people have enhanced source memory for the survival context in which an item has been encountered. Participants were asked to make survival-based or moving-based decisions about items prior to a classical source memory test. A multinomial model was used to measure old-new discrimination, source memory, and guessing biases separately. We replicated the finding of a survival advantage in old-new recognition. Extending previous results, we also found a survival-processing advantage in source memory. These results are in line with the richness-of-encoding explanation of the survival processing advantage and with an adaptive perspective on memory.

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Remembering the place with the tiger: Survival processing can enhance source memory

Kroneisen

Bell

2018

Psychon Bull Rev

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“…Although prior research has shown a survival processing advantage for item memory (Scofield et al, 2018), less is known about the effects of survival processing on context memory (i.e., memory for peripheral episodic details during study). The limited studies on survival processing effects on context have produced mixed results, with some evidence in support of context memory improvements compared to controls (Nairne et al, 2012;Clark and Bruno, 2016;Kroneisen and Bell, 2018;Misirlisoy et al, 2019;Zhang et al, 2020), whereas others have found no such benefits (Bröder et al, 2011;Savine et al, 2011;Nairne et al, 2015;Hou and Liu, 2019). In a study reporting a survival processing context memory advantage, participants were shown items in various locations on a computer screen and asked to process them in either a survival or scavenger hunt condition (Nairne et al, 2012).…”

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Effects of Survival Processing on Item and Context Memory: Enhanced Memory for Survival-Relevant Details

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Due to the natural selection pressure, certain aspects of memory may have been selected to give humans a survival advantage. Research has demonstrated that processing information for survival relevance leads to better item memory (i.e., the content of information) compared to control conditions. The current study investigates the effects of survival processing on context memory (i.e., memory for peripheral episodic details) and item memory to better understand when the survival processing memory advantage emerges. In this study, participants studied pictures of objects in either a survival or moving (control) condition. Objects were presented in either a plausible color, for example, a red apple, or in an implausible color, such as a green pie. We chose this color plausibility manipulation because color is a detail that conveys information about the fitness (and other diagnostic information) about an item. After studying items, participants made item memory judgments (did you see this item before?) and two context memory judgments: color context (in which color did you see this item?) and source context (in which condition did you see this item?). Results indicated better item memory for materials processed in the survival relative to moving condition. Critically, for color context, there was a condition by plausibility interaction, where memory was best for plausibly colored items in the survival processing condition. There was no difference, however, in source context memory between the survival and moving conditions. These results suggest the survival processing memory advantage extends to contextual details that particularly reflect the survival utility of items such as color.

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“…Following these findings, there has been a surge of interest in adaptive memory. Research appears to show consistently that survival processing is a more effective encoding task than other types of semantic processing paradigms, including imagery and selfreference (Kang, McDermott & Cohen, 2008;Nairne, Pandeirada & Thompson, 2008;Nairne, Pandeirada, Gregory & Van Arsdall, 2009;Burns, Burns & Hwang, 2011;Otgaar et al, 2011;Soderstrom & McCabe, 2011;Seamon et al, 2012;Bröder, Krüger & Schütte, 2011;Klein, 2012;Nairne, VanArsdall, Pandeirada & Blunt, 2012;Nouchi & Kawashima, 2012;Howe & Otgaar, 2013;Pandeirada, Pinho & Faria, 2014; but for exceptions, see Butler, Kang & Roedier, 2009;Klein, Robertson & Delton, 2010;Klein, Robertson & Delton, 2011). All in all, it has been suggested that survival processing may be "the 'best of the best' of known encoding procedures" (Nairne, Pandeirada & Thompson, 2008, p. 180).…”

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Fit to last: Exploring the longevity of the survival processing effect

Clark

Bruno

2016

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Mounting evidence indicates that processing items for their survival value produces superior recall compared to a number of other well-known memory-enhancing techniques, and that this mnemonic advantage remains up to 48 hours after encoding (Raymaekers et al., 2013).However, little attention has been dedicated to the survival processing effect in location memory, which may represent a better test of adaptive memory than retrieval of verbal information. The current study aims to fill this gap by exploring the longevity of the survival processing effect with both word list (Experiment 1) and location based (Experiment 2) stimuli. Participants rated target items using a single incidental encoding scenario, either Survival versus Pleasantness (word stimuli) or Survival versus Scavenger Hunt (location stimuli). They were then asked to complete a surprise recall task immediately after the ratings and a second recall task 96 hours later. The results demonstrated that, despite a general reduction in memory performance across time, the survival processing advantage was detected at both test times for both stimuli types. These findings provide further support for the survival processing effect and extend the observed effect duration for both word lists and location to 96 hours.

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The Survival Processing Memory Effect Should Generalise to Source Memory, but It Doesn’t

Cited by 18 publications

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Remembering the place with the tiger: Survival processing can enhance source memory

Remembering the place with the tiger: Survival processing can enhance source memory

Effects of Survival Processing on Item and Context Memory: Enhanced Memory for Survival-Relevant Details

Fit to last: Exploring the longevity of the survival processing effect

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