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Contextual reinstatement affects semantic organization

The Context Dependency Effect is the well-established finding in which memory performance is enhanced under conditions in which the encoding and retrieval contexts overlap (i.e., Same-Context) and diminished when the overlap between encoding and retrieval contexts is low (i.e., Different-Context). D...

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Autores principales: Vaknin, Dana, Raz-Groman, Zohar, Scheuer, Alon, Sadeh, Talya
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10562594/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37823076
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1199039
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author Vaknin, Dana
Raz-Groman, Zohar
Scheuer, Alon
Sadeh, Talya
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Scheuer, Alon
Sadeh, Talya
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description The Context Dependency Effect is the well-established finding in which memory performance is enhanced under conditions in which the encoding and retrieval contexts overlap (i.e., Same-Context) and diminished when the overlap between encoding and retrieval contexts is low (i.e., Different-Context). Despite much research on context-dependent memory, most prior work examined only mean performance levels. The current experiment examined the influence of context change, manipulated by using three different pieces of background music, on semantic organization during free recall. Recall driven by semantic organization captures an important, ecologically valid aspect of memory retrieval: because narratives of real-life events are typically comprised of semantically related concepts (e.g., “sea,” “bathing suit,” and “sand” when recalling a trip to the beach), their recall is likely driven by semantic organization. Participants in the current study were tested in the same or different context as the material was learned. The results showed that although the mean number of correctly recalled items was numerically greater in the Same-Context condition compared to the Different-Context condition, the Context Dependency Effect was not significant. In contrast, however, semantic clustering—an established measure of semantic organization—was greater in the Different-Context condition compared to the Same-Context condition. Together, these results suggest that when contextual cues at recall are relatively meager, participants instead use semantic information as cues to guide memory retrieval. In line with previous findings, temporal organization, patterns of errors, and serial position analyses showed no differences between the two context conditions. The present experiment provides novel evidence on how external context change affects recall organization.
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spelling pubmed-105625942023-10-11 Contextual reinstatement affects semantic organization Vaknin, Dana Raz-Groman, Zohar Scheuer, Alon Sadeh, Talya Front Psychol Psychology The Context Dependency Effect is the well-established finding in which memory performance is enhanced under conditions in which the encoding and retrieval contexts overlap (i.e., Same-Context) and diminished when the overlap between encoding and retrieval contexts is low (i.e., Different-Context). Despite much research on context-dependent memory, most prior work examined only mean performance levels. The current experiment examined the influence of context change, manipulated by using three different pieces of background music, on semantic organization during free recall. Recall driven by semantic organization captures an important, ecologically valid aspect of memory retrieval: because narratives of real-life events are typically comprised of semantically related concepts (e.g., “sea,” “bathing suit,” and “sand” when recalling a trip to the beach), their recall is likely driven by semantic organization. Participants in the current study were tested in the same or different context as the material was learned. The results showed that although the mean number of correctly recalled items was numerically greater in the Same-Context condition compared to the Different-Context condition, the Context Dependency Effect was not significant. In contrast, however, semantic clustering—an established measure of semantic organization—was greater in the Different-Context condition compared to the Same-Context condition. Together, these results suggest that when contextual cues at recall are relatively meager, participants instead use semantic information as cues to guide memory retrieval. In line with previous findings, temporal organization, patterns of errors, and serial position analyses showed no differences between the two context conditions. The present experiment provides novel evidence on how external context change affects recall organization. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10562594/ /pubmed/37823076 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1199039 Text en Copyright © 2023 Vaknin, Raz-Groman, Scheuer and Sadeh. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Sadeh, Talya
Contextual reinstatement affects semantic organization
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title_full_unstemmed Contextual reinstatement affects semantic organization
title_short Contextual reinstatement affects semantic organization
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10562594/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37823076
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1199039
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