Effects of prior knowledge on memory for objects in real-world scenes: Schema violations benefit memory and metacognitive performance

Klever, Lena; Islam, Jasmin; Võ, Melissa L.-H.; Billino, Jutta

doi:10.1167/jov.21.9.1950

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“…Yet, given its close relationship with memory processes, novelty processing is a crucial aspect to better understand the cognitive profile of these patients but also the models of memory impairment in this population. Since contextual novelty can boost memory performance (Klever et al, 2021;Lorents et al, 2023;Schomaker, 2019), our study investigated whether aMCI patients show preserved novelty preference for context-induced novelty and whether their memory performance can benefit from isolation-related novelty-i.e., a type of contextual novelty, or alternatively whether novelty-related effects are impaired in these patients.…”

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Contextual novelty detection and novelty-related memory enhancement in amnestic mild cognitive impairment

Servais,

Barbeau,

Bastin

2024

Cortex

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Contextual novelty detection and novelty-related memory enhancement in amnestic mild cognitive impairment

Servais,

Barbeau,

Bastin

2024

Cortex

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Contextual novelty detection and novelty-related memory enhancement in amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment

Servais¹,

Barbeau²,

Bastin³

2023

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Introduction: Though novelty processing plays a critical role in memory function, little is known about how it influences learning in memory-impaired populations, such as amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI).Methods: 21 aMCI patients and 22 age- and education-matched healthy older participants performed two tasks— (i) an oddball paradigm where fractals that were often repeated (60% of the stimuli), less frequently repeated (20%), or novel (presented once each) were shown to assess novelty preference (longer viewing time for novel than familiar stimuli), and (ii) a Von Restorff paradigm assessing novelty-related effects on memory. Participants studied 22 lists of 10 words. Among these lists, 18 contained an isolated word different from the others by its distinctive aspect, here the font size (90-point, 120-point or 150-point against 60-point for non-isolated words). The remaining four were control lists without isolated words. After studying each list, participants freely recalled the maximum words possible.Results: For the oddball task, a group-by-stimulus type ANOVA on median viewing times revealed a significant effect of stimulus type, but not of group. Both groups spent more time on novel stimuli. For the Von Restorff task, both aMCI and healthy controls recalled the isolated words (presented in 120-point or 150-point, but not 90-point) better than others (excluding primacy and recency effects). Novelty-related memory benefit—gain factor—was computed as the difference between the recall scores for isolated and other words. A group-by-font size ANOVA on gain factors revealed no group effect, nor interaction, suggesting that aMCI patients benefited from novelty, alike controls.Conclusion: Novelty preference and the boosting effect of isolation-related novelty on subsequent recall seem preserved despite impaired episodic memory in aMCI patients. This is discussed in the light of contemporary divergent theories regarding the relationship between novelty and memory, as either being independent or parts of a continuum.

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Effects of prior knowledge on memory for objects in real-world scenes: Schema violations benefit memory and metacognitive performance

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Contextual novelty detection and novelty-related memory enhancement in amnestic mild cognitive impairment

Contextual novelty detection and novelty-related memory enhancement in amnestic mild cognitive impairment

Contextual novelty detection and novelty-related memory enhancement in amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment

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