The ubiquitous nature of the Hebb repetition effect: Error learning mistaken for the absence of sequence learning.

In tests of working memory with verbal or spatial materials repeating the same memory sets across trials leads to improved memory performance. This well-established “Hebb repetition effect” could not be shown for visual materials. This absence of the Hebb effect can be explained in two ways: Either persons fail to acquire a long-term memory representation of the repeated memory sets, or they acquire such long-term memory representations, but fail to use them during the working memory task. In two experiments, (N1 = 18 and N2 = 30), we aimed to decide between these two possibilities by manipulating the long-term memory knowledge of some of the memory sets used in a change-detection task. Before the change-detection test, participants learned three arrays of colors to criterion. The subsequent change-detection test contained both previously learned and new color arrays. Change detection performance was better on previously learned compared to new arrays, showing that long-term memory is used in change detection.

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Exploring the characteristics of the visuospatial hebb repetition effect

Memory & Cognition ◽

10.3758/bf03195933 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 34 (8) ◽

pp. 1720-1729 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Mathieu Couture ◽

Sébastien Tremblay

Keyword(s):

Repetition Effect ◽

Hebb Repetition Effect

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Is long-term memory used in a visuo-spatial change-detection paradigm?

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review ◽

10.3758/s13423-021-01951-8 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Benjamin Goecke ◽

Klaus Oberauer

Keyword(s):

Working Memory ◽

Change Detection ◽

Memory Performance ◽

Memory Task ◽

Repetition Effect ◽

Long Term Memory ◽

Memory Representation ◽

Term Memory ◽

Hebb Repetition Effect

AbstractIn tests of working memory with verbal or spatial materials, repeating the same memory sets across trials leads to improved memory performance. This well-established “Hebb repetition effect” could not be shown for visual materials in previous research. The absence of the Hebb effect can be explained in two ways: Either persons fail to acquire a long-term memory representation of the repeated memory sets, or they acquire such long-term memory representations, but fail to use them during the working memory task. In two experiments (N1 = 18 and N2 = 30), we aimed to decide between these two possibilities by manipulating the long-term memory knowledge of some of the memory sets used in a change-detection task. Before the change-detection test, participants learned three arrays of colors to criterion. The subsequent change-detection test contained both previously learned and new color arrays. Change detection performance was better on previously learned compared with new arrays, showing that long-term memory is used in change detection.

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Learning multiple lists at the same time in the Hebb repetition effect.

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale ◽

10.1037/cep0000030 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 69 (1) ◽

pp. 89-94 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Jean Saint-Aubin ◽

Katherine Guérard ◽

Sylvain Fiset ◽

Marie-Claire Losier

Keyword(s):

Repetition Effect ◽

Hebb Repetition Effect

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