scholarly journals Do Intensive Studies of a Foreign Language Improve Associative Memory Performance?

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Mårtensson ◽  
Martin Lövdén
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Associative Memory ◽  
Memory Performance

scholarly journals Emotion-Involved Semantic Processing and L2 Vocabulary Memory: A Micro-Level Emotion Manifesto

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Yu Kanazawa ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Semantic Processing ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Judgment Task ◽  
Foreign Language Anxiety ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
L2 Vocabulary

Emotion is a pervasive phenomenon whose pivotal impacts on cognition have been proposed and increasingly acknowledged (e.g., operator effect and “(de-)energizing” effect; cf. Ciompi & Panksepp, 2005; Damasio, 2003; LeDoux, 2012). In accordance with this, second language acquisition (SLA) studies have recently seen an “affective turn” (Pavlenko, 2013) and several theories have been proposed and studies conducted concerning the effect of affect in SLA from such perspectives as motivation (Dörnyei & Ushioda, 2011), foreign language anxiety/enjoyment (Dewaele & MacIntyre, 2016), Directed Motivational Currents (Dörnyei, Henry, & Muir, 2016), and emotional intelligence (Gregersen & MacIntyre, 2017; Kanazawa, 2016b). The purpose of the experiments was to examine whether emotion-involved semantic processing (EmInvSemProc) results in better incidental L2 memory performance compared to other types of semantic processing (viz., a lexical decision task [LDT] for Experiment A and an imageability judgment task [IJT] for Experiment B).

scholarly journals The Role of Visual Association Cortex in Associative Memory Formation across Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya L. Rosen ◽  
Margaret A. Sheridan ◽  
Kelly A. Sambrook ◽  
Matthew R. Peverill ◽  
Andrew N. Meltzoff ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Associative Memory ◽  
Visual Processing ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Neural Mechanism ◽  
Association Cortex ◽  
Associative Memories ◽  
Associate Learning ◽  
Visual Association Cortex ◽  
Age Related

Associative learning underlies the formation of new episodic memories. Associative memory improves across development, and this age-related improvement is supported by the development of the hippocampus and pFC. Recent work, however, additionally suggests a role for visual association cortex in the formation of associative memories. This study investigated the role of category-preferential visual processing regions in associative memory across development using a paired associate learning task in a sample of 56 youths (age 6–19 years). Participants were asked to bind an emotional face with an object while undergoing fMRI scanning. Outside the scanner, participants completed a memory test. We first investigated age-related changes in neural recruitment and found linear age-related increases in activation in lateral occipital cortex and fusiform gyrus, which are involved in visual processing of objects and faces, respectively. Furthermore, greater activation in these visual processing regions was associated with better subsequent memory for pairs over and above the effect of age and of hippocampal and pFC activation on performance. Recruitment of these visual processing regions mediated the association between age and memory performance, over and above the effects of hippocampal activation. Taken together, these findings extend the existing literature to suggest that greater recruitment of category-preferential visual processing regions during encoding of associative memories is a neural mechanism explaining improved memory across development.

scholarly journals No Evidence for Improved Associative Memory Performance Following Process-Based Associative Memory Training in Older Adults

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Bellander ◽  
Anne Eschen ◽  
Martin Lövdén ◽  
Mike Martin ◽  
Lars Bäckman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Associative Memory ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Memory Training

scholarly journals I know your face but can’t remember your name: Age-related differences in the FNAME-12NL

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Enriquez-Geppert ◽  
J F Flores-Vázquez ◽  
M Lietz ◽  
M Garcia-Pimenta ◽  
P Andrés
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Associative Memory ◽  
Recognition Performance ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Age Effects ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Effects Of Aging

Abstract Objective The Face-Name Associative Memory test (FNAME) has recently received attention as a test for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. So far, however, there has been no systematic investigation of the effects of aging. Here, we aimed to assess the extent to which the FNAME performance is modulated by normal ageing. Method In a first step, we adapted the FNAME material to the Dutch population. In a second step, younger (n = 29) and older adults (n = 29) were compared on recall and recognition performance. Results Significant age effects on name recall were observed after the first exposure of new face-name pairs: younger adults remembered eight, whereas older adults remembered a mean of four out of twelve names. Although both age groups increased the number of recalled names with repeated face-name exposure, older adults did not catch up with the performance of the younger adults, and the age-effects remained stable. Despite of that, both age groups maintained their performance after a 30-min delay. Considering recognition, no age differences were demonstrated, and both age groups succeeded in the recognition of previously shown faces and names when presented along with distractors. Conclusions This study presents for the first time the results of different age groups regarding cross-modal associative memory performance on the FNAME. The recall age effects support the hypothesis of age-related differences in associative memory. To use the FNAME as an early cognitive biomarker, further subscales are suggested to increase sensitivity and specificity in the clinical context.

scholarly journals Fractional anisotropy in white matter hyperintensities is linked to associative memory performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (S5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyyed Mohammad Hassan Haddad ◽  
Christopher J.M. Scott ◽  
Miracle Ozzoude ◽  
Melissa F. Holmes ◽  
Stephen R. Arnott ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
White Matter ◽  
Fractional Anisotropy ◽  
Associative Memory ◽  
White Matter Hyperintensities ◽  
Memory Performance
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