Does the reactivity effect of judgments of learning transfer to learning of new information?

Judgments of Learning Reactively Improve Memory by Enhancing Learning Engagement and Inducing Elaborative Processing: Evidence from an EEG Study

“…The current study is the first to explore neural features associated with the effect. The behavioral results successfully replicated the positive reactivity effect on word list learning (Li et al 2022(Li et al , 2023Shi et al 2023;Yang et al 2015;Zechmeister and Shaughnessy 1980;Zhao et al 2022). More importantly, the EEG results demonstrated that making JOLs increased the ERP amplitudes of P200 and LPC and decreased stimulus-induced alpha and beta power (larger ERDs).…”

“…Although a set of recent studies consistently demonstrated that making concurrent JOLs can reactively change memory itself (Janes et al 2018;Li et al 2022Li et al , 2023Mitchum et al 2016;Myers et al 2020;Rivers et al 2021;Soderstrom et al 2015;Tekin and Roediger 2020;Witherby and Tauber 2017;Zhao et al 2022), no research has been conducted to explore the neurocognitive underpinnings associated with the effect. The current study is the first to explore neural features associated with the effect.…”

“…Following previous JOL reactivity studies (Kubik et al 2022;Li et al 2023Li et al , 2024, the current experiment employed a within-subjects design (JOL vs. no-JOL). Participants were informed that they would study four lists of words in preparation for a later memory test.…”

“…To examine the behavioral reactivity effect (Li et al 2022(Li et al , 2023, discriminability (d ′ , an index reflecting the ability to discriminate the signal [i.e., old words] from the noise [i.e., new words]) 1 , and response criterion (c ′ , an index reflecting an individual's propensity for the "old" response in the recognition test) were calculated (for detailed explanations of d ′ and c ′ , see Banks 1970). Old words receiving a response of 3 or 4 in the recognition test were considered as "hits," and new words receiving a response of 3 or 4 were coded as "false alarms."…”