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Adaptive Memory: Thinking about Function
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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)
Is the Survival-Processing Memory Advantage Due to Richness of Encoding?
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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
Appearance-Based First Impressions and Person Memory
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Bell, Raoul; Mieth, Laura; Buchner, Axel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Previous research has demonstrated that people preferentially remember reputational information that is emotionally incongruent to their expectations, but it has left open the question of the generality of this effect. Three conflicting hypotheses were proposed: (a) The effect is restricted to information relevant to reciprocal social exchange.…
Descriptors: Memory, Hypothesis Testing, Experimental Psychology, Effect Size
Evidence for Episodic Retrieval of Inadequate Prime Responses in Auditory Negative Priming
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Mayr, Susanne; Buchner, Axel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
Four experiments are reported in which the mechanisms underlying auditory negative priming were investigated. In Experiments 1A and 1B, preprime-prime intervals and prime-probe intervals were manipulated.The ratio between the 2 intervals determined the size of the negative priming effect. Results are compatible with the episodic retrieval account,…
Descriptors: Responses, Auditory Stimuli, Intervals, Memory