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Context reinstatement requires a schema relevant virtual environment to benefit object recall.
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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review . Mar2024, p1-9. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- How does our environment impact what we will later remember? Early work in real-world environments suggested that having matching encoding/retrieval contexts improves memory. However, some laboratory-based studies have not replicated this advantageous context-dependent memory effect. Using virtual reality methods, we find support for context-dependent memory effects and examine an influence of memory schema and dynamic environments. Participants (<italic>N</italic> = 240) remembered more objects when in the same virtual environment (context) as during encoding. This traded-off with falsely “recognizing” more similar lures. Experimentally manipulating the virtual objects and environments revealed that a congruent object/environment schema aids recall (but not recognition), though a dynamic background does not. These findings further our understanding of when and how context affects our memory through a naturalistic approach to studying such effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10699384
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 175748137
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02472-w