The Formation of Specific and Gist Associative Episodic Memory Representations during Encoding: Effects of Rate of Presentation

Autor/inn/en	Greene, Nathaniel R.; Naveh-Benjamin, Moshe
Titel	The Formation of Specific and Gist Associative Episodic Memory Representations during Encoding: Effects of Rate of Presentation
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49 (2023) 7, S.1099-1118 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Greene, Nathaniel R.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0001173
Schlagwörter	Memory; Comprehension; Cognitive Processes; Visual Discrimination; Association (Psychology); College Students; Responses; Accuracy; Missouri + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gedächtnis; Verstehen; Verständnis; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Assoziation; Collegestudent
Abstract	Assessing the time course under which underlying memory representations can be formed is an important question for understanding memory. Several studies assessing item memory have shown that gist representations of items are laid out more rapidly than verbatim representations. However, for associations among items/components, which form the core of episodic memory, it is unclear whether gist representations form more quickly than, or at least in parallel with, verbatim representations, as fuzzy-trace theory predicts, or whether gist is extracted more slowly from inferring the meaning of verbatim representations, as in gist macroprocessor theories. To test these contrasting possibilities, we used a novel associative recognition task in which participants studied face-scene pairs for 0.75, 1.5, or 4 seconds each, and were later tested on their ability to discriminate intact pairs from foils which varied in how similar they were to originally studied pairs. Across 2 experiments, we found that verbatim memory for associations, measured using a multinomial-processing-tree model, improved from 0.75 to 1.5 to 4 seconds of presentation time. Paralleling these effects of encoding time on verbatim memory, for gist memory, there were improvements from 0.75 seconds to 1.5 seconds in both experiment 1 and 2, while improvements from 1.5 seconds to 4 seconds were only evident when the retention interval between study and test was increased (experiment 2). These results provide strong support for the parallel processing framework of fuzzy-trace theory over the slow gist extraction framework of an alternative gist macroprocessor theory. (As Provided).
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