A Brief Meditation Reduces False Alarms to Non-Living Lures

Szani, Angelica; Bowers, Katherine; Pereira-Pasarin, Lucienne; Lloyd, Marianne E.

doi:10.1037/e633262013-410

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“…Most important to note, and in accord with ideas from adaptivememory theories, participants' memory for animate concepts has consistently been found to be greater than their memory for inanimate concepts (e.g., Bonin et al, 2014;Nairne et al, 2013;Szani et al, 2013;VanArsdall et al, 2013). Further, this outcome obtains regardless of whether the encoding task is incidental (VanArsdall et al, 2013) or intentional (Nairne et al, 2013), occurs with word lists as well as with sets of pictures (Bonin et al, 2014), and even occurs for novel (pronounceable) nonwords onto which animate or inanimate properties are ascribed (VanArsdall et al, 2013).…”

Section: Animacy and Memorymentioning

confidence: 59%

“…Animacy and free recall. Although some studies have used recognition measures (e.g., Szani, Moen, Pereira-Pasarin, & Lloyd, 2013;VanArsdall et al, 2013), for the present purposes we focus on those empirical investigations of the effects of animacy on memory that have used free-recall memory measures (e.g., Bonin et al, 2014;Nairne et al, 2013;VanArsdall et al, 2013). Freerecall memory tasks involve procedures in which participants encode a list or lists of words and then try to recall as many of the words from that list as possible.…”

Section: Animacy and Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…If the relationship between animacy and memory is direct—for example because animacy is an intrinsic property of a concept that is directly associated with better memory—then we should find positive effects of animacy on memory across a variety of memory tasks (cf. Bonin et al, 2014; Nairne et al, 2013; Szani et al, 2013; VanArsdall et al, 2013). In contrast, however, the relationship between animacy and memory might be indirect (e.g., because animacy attracts attention and attention begets cognitive processing).…”

Section: The Present Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Adaptive memory: Animacy enhances free recall but impairs cued recall.

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2016

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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Recent research suggests that human memory systems evolved to remember animate things better than inanimate things. In the present experiments, we examined whether these effects occur for both free recall and cued recall. In Experiment 1, we directly compared the effect of animacy on free recall and cued recall. Participants studied lists of objects and lists of animals for free-recall tests, and studied sets of animal-animal pairs and object-object pairs for cued-recall tests. In Experiment 2, we compared participants' cued recall for English-English, Swahili-English, and English-Swahili word pairs involving either animal or object English words. In Experiment 3, we compared participants' cued recall for animal-animal, object-object, animal-object, and object-animal pairs. Although we were able to replicate past effects of animacy aiding free recall, animacy typically impaired cued recall in the present experiments. More importantly, given the interactions found in the present experiments, we conclude that some factor associated with animacy (e.g., attention capture or mental arousal) is responsible for the present patterns of results. This factor seems to moderate the relationship between animacy and memory, producing a memory advantage for animate stimuli in scenarios where the moderator leads to enhanced target retrievability but a memory disadvantage for animate stimuli in scenarios where the moderator leads to impaired association memory.

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