Can Concepts Like Evolution Unify Memory Research?

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (23) ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Gallo
Keyword(s):  
Memory Research

Beyond Intelligence Testing

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 320-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serge Nicolas ◽  
Zachary Levine
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Experimental Psychology ◽  
Intelligence Testing ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Applied Psychology ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Memory Research ◽  
English Translations ◽  
The Many

Though Alfred Binet was a prolific writer, many of his 1893–1903 works are not well known. This is partly due to a lack of English translations of the many important papers and books that he and his collaborators created during this period. Binet’s insights into intelligence testing are widely celebrated, but the centennial of his death provides an occasion to reexamine his other psychological examinations. His studies included many diverse aspects of mental life, including memory research and the science of testimony. Indeed, Binet was a pioneer of psychology and produced important research on cognitive and experimental psychology, developmental psychology, social psychology, and applied psychology. This paper seeks to elucidate these aspects of his work.

Recent and Upcoming Events for Prospective Memory Researchers

2011 ◽  
Vol 219 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-126
Author(s):  
Rebekah E. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Discussion Group ◽  
Memory Research ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Memory Group

This section contains short contributions involving the following aspects of prospective memory research: Recent and upcoming symposia on prospective memory (including a symposium in honor of Richard Marsh to be held at the 5th International Conference on Memory, York, UK, August 2011) / Special journal issues on prospective memory (2000-2011) / Fourth International Conference on Prospective Memory (Naples, Italy, 2013) / The Prospective Memory Group (web discussion group)

Call for Papers: “Applied Memory Research”

2013 ◽  
Vol 221 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-63
Author(s):  
Melody Wiseheart
Keyword(s):  
Memory Research

A Modern Synthesis of Memory Research and Theory

1995 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 555-556
Author(s):  
William A. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Modern Synthesis ◽  
Memory Research

scholarly journals Irrelevant background context decreases mnemonic discrimination and increases false memory

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihály Racsmány ◽  
Dorottya Bencze ◽  
Péter Pajkossy ◽  
Ágnes Szőllősi ◽  
Miklós Marián
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Test ◽  
False Recognition ◽  
Pattern Separation ◽  
Hippocampal Function ◽  
Memory Research ◽  
Early Dementia ◽  
Similar Information ◽  
Behavioral Score ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Background Context

AbstractOne of the greatest commonplaces in memory research is that context improves recall and enhances or leaves recognition intact. Here we present results which draw attention to the fact that the reappearance of irrelevant and unattended background contexts of encoding significantly impairs memory discrimination functions. This manuscript presents the results of two experiments in which participants made indoor/outdoor judgements for a large number of object images presented together with individual, irrelevant and presumably unattended background scenes. On a subsequent unexpected recognition test participants saw the incidentally encoded target objects, visually similar lures or new foil objects on the same or new background scenes. Our results showed that although the reappearance of the background scene raised the hit rate for target objects, it decreased mnemonic discrimination, a behavioral score for pattern separation, a hippocampal function that is affected in early dementia. Furthermore, the presence of the encoded background scene at the recognition test increased the false recognition of lure objects, even when participants were explicitly instructed to neglect the context scene. Altogether these results gave evidence that if context increases recognition hits for target memories, it does so at the cost of increasing false recognition and diminished discriminability for similar information.

Hypothesis testing in experimental and naturalistic memory research

1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-211
Author(s):  
Daniel B. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Hypothesis Testing ◽  
Everyday Memory ◽  
Memory Research ◽  
Memory Theory ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Heated Debate

AbstractKoriat & Goldsmith's distinction between the correspondence and storehouse metaphors is valuable for both memory theory and methodology. It is questionable, however, whether this distinction underlies the heated debate about so called “everyday memory” research. The distinction between experimental and naturalistic methodologies better characterizes this debate. I compare these distinctions and discuss how the methodological distinction, between experimental and naturalistic designs, could give rise to different theoretical approaches.

The correspondence metaphor: Prescriptive or descriptive?

1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-195
Author(s):  
Darryl Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Memory ◽  
Memory Research

AbstractKoriat & Goldsmith's abstract correspondence metaphor is unlikely to prove useful to memory science. It aims to motivate and inform the investigation of everyday memory, but that movement has prospered without it. The irrelevance of its competitor – the more concrete storehouse metaphor – as a guiding force in memory research presages a similar fate for the correspondence perspective.

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