Cargando…

Anticipation of novel environments enhances memory for incidental information

Novelty is a potent driver of learning, but little is known about whether anticipation of novelty can enhance memory for incidental information. Here, participants incidentally encountered objects while they actively navigated toward novel or previously familiarized virtual rooms. Across immediate a...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Cen, Danlu, Gkoumas, Christos, Gruber, Matthias J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2021
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8284314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34266990
http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.053392.121
_version_ 1783723376960864256
author Cen, Danlu
Gkoumas, Christos
Gruber, Matthias J.
author_facet Cen, Danlu
Gkoumas, Christos
Gruber, Matthias J.
author_sort Cen, Danlu
collection PubMed
description Novelty is a potent driver of learning, but little is known about whether anticipation of novelty can enhance memory for incidental information. Here, participants incidentally encountered objects while they actively navigated toward novel or previously familiarized virtual rooms. Across immediate and delayed surprise memory tests, participants showed superior recollection for incidental objects encountered while anticipating novel as compared with familiarized rooms. Furthermore, memory for incidental objects correlated positively with between-participants average curiosity about novel rooms but negatively with within-participants trial-specific curiosity. Our findings contribute to the growing literature on how salient processes impact memory for incidental material.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-8284314
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-82843142021-08-01 Anticipation of novel environments enhances memory for incidental information Cen, Danlu Gkoumas, Christos Gruber, Matthias J. Learn Mem Brief Communication Novelty is a potent driver of learning, but little is known about whether anticipation of novelty can enhance memory for incidental information. Here, participants incidentally encountered objects while they actively navigated toward novel or previously familiarized virtual rooms. Across immediate and delayed surprise memory tests, participants showed superior recollection for incidental objects encountered while anticipating novel as compared with familiarized rooms. Furthermore, memory for incidental objects correlated positively with between-participants average curiosity about novel rooms but negatively with within-participants trial-specific curiosity. Our findings contribute to the growing literature on how salient processes impact memory for incidental material. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2021-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8284314/ /pubmed/34266990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.053392.121 Text en © 2021 Cen et al.; Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article, published in Learning & Memory, is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution 4.0 International), as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
spellingShingle Brief Communication
Cen, Danlu
Gkoumas, Christos
Gruber, Matthias J.
Anticipation of novel environments enhances memory for incidental information
title Anticipation of novel environments enhances memory for incidental information
title_full Anticipation of novel environments enhances memory for incidental information
title_fullStr Anticipation of novel environments enhances memory for incidental information
title_full_unstemmed Anticipation of novel environments enhances memory for incidental information
title_short Anticipation of novel environments enhances memory for incidental information
title_sort anticipation of novel environments enhances memory for incidental information
topic Brief Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8284314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34266990
http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.053392.121
work_keys_str_mv AT cendanlu anticipationofnovelenvironmentsenhancesmemoryforincidentalinformation
AT gkoumaschristos anticipationofnovelenvironmentsenhancesmemoryforincidentalinformation
AT grubermatthiasj anticipationofnovelenvironmentsenhancesmemoryforincidentalinformation