Does survival context enhance memory for source? A within-subjects comparison

Misirlisoy, Mine; Tanyas, Hilal; Atalay, Nart Bedin

doi:10.1080/09658211.2019.1566928

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“…Such results would converge with other findings that contextual details that signal survival-relevant information (such as location) may be especially prone to exhibit a survival context memory advantage (Nairne et al, 2012;Clark and Bruno, 2016). In contrast, since a survival processing source context memory advantage has been less reliable with some studies finding an advantage (Kroneisen and Bell, 2018;Misirlisoy et al, 2019;Zhang et al, 2020), but others not (Nairne et al, 2010;Savine et al, 2011;Nairne et al, 2015;Hou and Liu, 2019), we did not make strong predictions for source context memory.…”

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“…Twenty-seven adults (eight males and 19 females), recruited from the University of Illinois at Chicago, participated in this experiment. Because we used a recognition memory test in this experiment, we chose to base a power analysis on a recent survival processing paper that used a recognition memory task (Misirlisoy et al, 2019). A power analysis using G * Power (Faul et al, 2007) estimated 25 participants would give us 80% power to detect differences across conditions.…”

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“…Although prior research has shown a survival processing advantage for item memory (Scofield et al, 2018), less is known about the effects of survival processing on context memory (i.e., memory for peripheral episodic details during study). The limited studies on survival processing effects on context have produced mixed results, with some evidence in support of context memory improvements compared to controls (Nairne et al, 2012;Clark and Bruno, 2016;Kroneisen and Bell, 2018;Misirlisoy et al, 2019;Zhang et al, 2020), whereas others have found no such benefits (Bröder et al, 2011;Savine et al, 2011;Nairne et al, 2015;Hou and Liu, 2019). In a study reporting a survival processing context memory advantage, participants were shown items in various locations on a computer screen and asked to process them in either a survival or scavenger hunt condition (Nairne et al, 2012).…”

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“…In this study, we examined the survival processing advantage for two different contextual features to better understand whether a context memory advantage might emerge for only some contextual details and not others. Specifically, we investigated source context memory, which does not seem to reliably induce a survival processing advantage (Nairne et al, 2010;Experiments 1, 2, and 3;Savine et al, 2011;Nairne et al, 2015;Hou and Liu, 2019; though see Kroneisen and Bell, 2018;Misirlisoy et al, 2019;Zhang et al, 2020, for studies that did report a source context memory advantage) and color context, which is a detail that conveys diagnostic information about studied items.…”

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Effects of Survival Processing on Item and Context Memory: Enhanced Memory for Survival-Relevant Details

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Due to the natural selection pressure, certain aspects of memory may have been selected to give humans a survival advantage. Research has demonstrated that processing information for survival relevance leads to better item memory (i.e., the content of information) compared to control conditions. The current study investigates the effects of survival processing on context memory (i.e., memory for peripheral episodic details) and item memory to better understand when the survival processing memory advantage emerges. In this study, participants studied pictures of objects in either a survival or moving (control) condition. Objects were presented in either a plausible color, for example, a red apple, or in an implausible color, such as a green pie. We chose this color plausibility manipulation because color is a detail that conveys information about the fitness (and other diagnostic information) about an item. After studying items, participants made item memory judgments (did you see this item before?) and two context memory judgments: color context (in which color did you see this item?) and source context (in which condition did you see this item?). Results indicated better item memory for materials processed in the survival relative to moving condition. Critically, for color context, there was a condition by plausibility interaction, where memory was best for plausibly colored items in the survival processing condition. There was no difference, however, in source context memory between the survival and moving conditions. These results suggest the survival processing memory advantage extends to contextual details that particularly reflect the survival utility of items such as color.

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Effects of Survival Processing on Item and Context Memory: Enhanced Memory for Survival-Relevant Details

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“…On the other hand, Nairne et al (2012) found increased memory for the source of pictures when they designed a rating task that motivated participants to consider the source of information when giving rating decisions within the respective scenarios. Moreover, better memory for the source of words was observed for the survival context when participants indicated in within-subjects free recall and recognition tests whether they had processed the remembered words in the survival or the control scenario (Kroneisen & Bell, 2018;Misirlisoy, Tanyas, & Atalay, 2019). Another line of research has investigated the boundary conditions of survival processing by examining if its mnemonic benefit translates to alternative evolutionary scenarios that should possess fitness relevance, too.…”

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Does the Survival Processing Memory Advantage Translate to Serial Recall?

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The survival processing effect describes the phenomenon that memory for items is better after they have been processed in the context of a fitness-related survival scenario as compared to alternative processing contexts. In the present study, we examined whether the survival processing memory advantage translates to memory for the order of processed items. Across two serial-recall experiments, we replicated the survival processing effect for free recall but did not find an additional survival processing advantage for serial recall when we controlled serial recall performance for the total number of words recalled per person. Adjusted serial recall performance was not better in the survival processing condition when compared to a moving and a relational pleasantness processing condition (Experiment 1), even when processing of the relational order of stimuli was explicitly endorsed in the survival processing task (Experiment 2). This finding is in line with the idea that enhanced item-specific rather than enhanced relational processing of items underlies the survival processing effect. Moreover, our findings indicate that survival processing does not increase memory efficiency for temporal context information.

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