scholarly journals The Effects of Language and Semantic Repetition on the Enactment Effect of Action Memory

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinyuan Zhang ◽  
Sascha Zuber
Keyword(s):  
Enactment Effect ◽  
Action Memory

Gains and Losses in Action Memory

2003 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 829-848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Engelkamp ◽  
Kerstin H. Seiler
Keyword(s):  
Free Recall ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Relational Information ◽  
Enactment Effect ◽  
Relational Encoding ◽  
Equivalent Number ◽  
Widespread Agreement ◽  
Action Memory ◽  
Gains And Losses

Enacting action phrases (SPT for subject-performed task) produces better free recall than only learning the phrases verbally (VT for verbal task). A widespread explanation of the enactment effect is based on the distinction between item-specific and relational information. There is widespread agreement that the main reason is the excellent item-specific encoding by enactment. However, there is little direct evidence in the case of free recall. The role of relational information is less clear. We suggest that content-based relational encoding is better in VTs than in SPTs. In three experiments, in which multiple free recall testing used item gains and losses as indices of item-specific and content-based relational encoding, respectively, these assumptions were confirmed. Consistently more gains (indexing better item-specific encoding) and more losses (indexing poorer relational encoding) were observed in SPTs than in VTs (Experiments 1 and 2). Furthermore, it was demonstrated that the content-based relational information underlying losses is not identical with order-relational information (Experiment 2). In Experiment 3, it was shown that an item-specific orienting task for VTs produced an equivalent number of item gains and losses as did the SPT condition.

scholarly journals Working Memory and the Enactment Effect in Early Alzheimer’s Disease

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara A. Charlesworth ◽  
Richard J. Allen ◽  
Suzannah Morson ◽  
Wendy K. Burn ◽  
Celine Souchay
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Working Memory ◽  
Free Recall ◽  
Older Adult ◽  
Memory Task ◽  
Enactment Effect ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Instruction Sequences ◽  
Early Alzheimer’S Disease

This study examines the enactment effect in early Alzheimer’s disease using a novel working memory task. Free recall of action-object instruction sequences was measured in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (n=14) and older adult controls (n=15). Instruction sequences were read out loud by the experimenter (verbal-only task) or read by the experimenter and performed by the participants (subject-performed task). In both groups and for all sequence lengths, recall was superior in the subject-performed condition than the verbal-only condition. Individuals with Alzheimer’s disease showed a deficit in free recall of recently learned instruction sequences relative to older adult controls, yet both groups show a significant benefit from performing actions themselves at encoding. The subject-performed task shows promise as a tool to improve working memory in early Alzheimer’s disease.

scholarly journals Zoocentrism in the weeds? Cultivating plant models for cognitive yield

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Linson ◽  
Paco Calvo
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
General Model ◽  
Animal Cognition ◽  
Plant Science ◽  
Turn Point ◽  
Cognitive Agents ◽  
Action Memory ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Perception Action

Abstract It remains at best controversial to claim, non-figuratively, that plants are cognitive agents. At the same time, it is taken as trivially true that many (if not all) animals are cognitive agents, arguably through an implicit or explicit appeal to natural science. Yet, any given definition of cognition implicates at least some further processes, such as perception, action, memory, and learning, which must be observed either behaviorally, psychologically, neuronally, or otherwise physiologically. Crucially, however, for such observations to be intelligible, they must be counted as evidence for some model. These models in turn point to homologies of physiology and behavior that facilitate the attribution of cognition to some non-human animals. But, if one is dealing with a model of animal cognition, it is tautological that only animals can provide evidence, and absurd to claim that plants can. The more substantive claim that, given a general model of cognition, only animals but not plants can provide evidence, must be evaluated on its merits. As evidence mounts that plants meet established criteria of cognition, from physiology to behavior, they continue to be denied entry into the cognitive club. We trace this exclusionary tendency back to Aristotle, and attempt to counter it by drawing on the philosophy of modelling and a range of findings from plant science. Our argument illustrates how a difference in degree between plant and animals is typically mistaken for a difference in kind.

Watching video of discrete maneuvers yields better action memory and greater activation in the middle temporal gyrus in half-pipe snowboarding athletes

2020 ◽  
Vol 739 ◽  
pp. 135336
Author(s):  
Yifan Chen ◽  
Yingying Wang ◽  
Qiwei Zhao ◽  
Yixuan Wang ◽  
Yingzhi Lu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Temporal Gyrus ◽  
Middle Temporal ◽  
Action Memory

scholarly journals Encoding information for future action: Memory for to-be-performed tasks versus memory for to-be-recalled tasks

1990 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 568-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asher Koriat ◽  
Hasida Ben-Zur ◽  
Alumit Nussbaum
Keyword(s):  
Future Action ◽  
Action Memory
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