The role of attention to changes in episodic memory updating
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Jong Won Lee (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Christopher Wahlheim
Abstract: Memory-for-Change accounts have shown that detection and recollection of change may help counteract the deleterious effect of the proactive interference and promote proactive facilitation in some cases. While it is a common understanding that people need to pay attention to the Memory-for-Change for the episodic memory updating to be successful, memory researchers are yet to define the exact role of attention in the Memory-for-Change framework. The current study is the first to investigate the exact attention to the site of change to be the key factor that drives the Memory-for-Change framework to work. To investigate such topics, current study utilized an A-B, A-D dual list paradigm by instructing participants to study two lists for an upcoming test. Throughout the two lists, participants observed three types of item, where one word set gets repeated for both lists (A-B, A-B), where the response word of the word set changes in List 2 while cue stays the same without any color change (A-B, A-D not colored), and where the word pair set changes in List 2 too but the response word in List 2 is colored in red to indicate that the item has changed (A-B, A-D colored). Color difference on List 2 response was to direct participant’s attention to the site of change. This was to observe how different amounts of attention distributed to the site of change determines whether change recollection happens. During the test phase, participants completed a cued recall test for the responses from both lists, and also on whether they recollect the change. The result of the current experiment failed to observe that the attention plays a key role in the recollective procedure within the MFC framework that induces the counteraction of proactive interference but observed positive correlation between Change remembrance and attention.
The role of attention to changes in episodic memory updating
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Thesis
- Language: English
- Date: 2021
- Keywords
- Episodic Memory Updating, Memory, Memory-for-Change
- Subjects
- Attention
- Episodic memory
- Change (Psychology)
- Recollection (Psychology)