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Bell, Raoul; Röer, Jan P.; Buchner, Axel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Rating the relevance of words for the imagined situation of being stranded in the grasslands without survival material leads to exceptionally good memory for these words. This survival processing effect has received much attention because it promises to elucidate the evolutionary foundations of memory. However, the proximate mechanisms of the…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Memory, Cognitive Processes, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Röer, Jan P.; Bell, Raoul; Buchner, Axel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Memory for words rated according to their relevance in a grassland survival context is exceptionally good. According to Nairne, Thompson, and Pandeirada's (2007) evolutionary-based explanation, natural selection processes have tuned the human memory system to prioritize the processing of fitness-relevant information. The survival-processing memory…
Descriptors: Memory, Cognitive Processes, Recall (Psychology), Word Lists