Semantic contribution to verbal short-term memory: Are pleasant words easier to remember than neutral words in serial recall and serial recognition?

Monnier, Catherine; Syssau, Arielle

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“…However, the high working memory demands used in these tasks and the involvement of executive and strategic processes necessary for updating and stimulus manipulation render the interpretation of this null result somewhat difficult. Monnier and Syssau (2008), using a pure list design and simple ISR 8 tasks, observed indeed better recall performance for pleasant (positive) word lists as compared to neutral word lists. Possible differences in semantic relatedness between the two list types were not controlled, however, so the specific mechanisms underlying the detected difference in STM recall remain unclear.…”

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“…Hence, increased semantic relatedness is not sufficient to explain the increased LTM support for emotional words observed in this study. Another candidate, increased word imageability, can also be ruled out since this variable was carefully controlled for, as it was in previous studies (Tse & Altarriba, 2009;Talmi & Moscovitch, 2004;Monnier & Syssau, 2008). Then how does the facilitated semantic LTM support for emotional words originate?…”

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“…Within-list semantic relatedness was controlled by obtaining semantic relatedness ratings for all adjacent word pairs occurring in the different lists (see also Tse and Altarriba, 2009). Like in the only study that observed a reliable effect of emotional content on ISR performance for pure lists, stimuli were presented auditorily (Monnier & Syssau, 2008). However, contrary to Monnier and Syssau, all stimuli were prerecorded sound files in order to ensure standardized presentation format.…”

Section: Experiments 1: Isr For Pure Lists Of Emotional Words In Youngmentioning

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Verbal short-term memory reflects the organization of long-term memory: Further evidence from short-term memory for emotional words

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D’Argembeau

2011

Journal of Memory and Language

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Many studies suggest that long-term lexical-semantic knowledge is an important determinant of verbal short-term memory (STM) performance. This study explored the impact of emotional valence on word immediate serial recall as a further lexico-semantic long-term memory (LTM) effect on STM. This effect is particularly interesting for the study of STM-LTM interactions since emotional words not only activate specific lexico-semantic LTM features but also capture attentional resources, and hence allow for the study of both LTM and attentional factors on STM tasks. In Experiments 1 and 2, we observed a robust effect of emotional valence on pure list recall in both young and elderly adults, with higher recall performance for emotional lists as opposed to neutral lists, as predicted by increased LTM support for emotional words. In Experiments 3 and 4 however, using mixed lists, it was the lists containing a minority of emotional words which led to higher recall performance over lists containing a majority of emotional words. This was predicted by a weak version of the attentional capture account. These data add new evidence to the theoretical position that LTM knowledge is a critical determinant of STM performance, with further, list-type dependent intervention of attentional factors. words 3There is a substantial body of research showing that verbal short-term memory (STM) is not an autonomous cognitive function, but instead recruits linguistic knowledge bases to a very large extent. The present study explored a further potential long-term memory (LTM) effect on STM performance, the impact of emotional-semantic knowledge associated with emotional words. The impact of verbal LTM on STMMany studies show that the linguistic properties of the words, such as lexical status, lexical frequency, phonotactic frequency, word imageability, have a direct impact on their recall probability during a STM task (Gathercole, Frankish, Pickering & Peaker, 1999;Hulme et al., 1997;Majerus & Van der Linden, 2003;Roodenrys, Hulme, Alban, & Ellis, 1994;Walker & Hulme, 1999). The most prototypical effect is the lexicality effect, characterized by higher recall performance for lists composed of familiar words, as opposed to lists composed of nonwords (e.g., Gathercole et al., 1999;Hulme, Maughan & Brown, 1991).These effects have been shown to be independent of articulatory rehearsal factors (e.g., Gathercole et al., 1999;Hulme et al., 1991). The existence of these psycholinguistic effects has been interpreted as reflecting the influence of phonological, lexical and semantic language representations stored in LTM on verbal STM (Hulme et al., 1991). On the one hand, this LTM support is supposed to function at the level of retrieval, when the decayed STM traced is reconstructed via corresponding LTM representations: the more available and familiar these representations are, the more efficient these reconstruction processes will be (the so-called redintegration process) (Hulme et al., 1997;Gathercole et al., 1999;Schweickert, 1993). Other th...

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Section: The Impact Of Emotional Semantic Content On Stmmentioning

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Section: The Emotional Valence Effect As New Evidence For Interactionmentioning

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Section: Experiments 1: Isr For Pure Lists Of Emotional Words In Youngmentioning

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Verbal short-term memory reflects the organization of long-term memory: Further evidence from short-term memory for emotional words

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D’Argembeau

2011

Journal of Memory and Language

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“…: Kanske & Kotz, 2007;Kousta, Vinson, & Vigliocco, 2009;Kuchinke, Võ, Hofmann, & Jacobs, 2007;Kuperman, Estes, Brysbaert, & Warriner, 2014;Ortigue et al, 2004;Scott, O'Donnell, Leuthold, & Sereno, 2009;Syssau & Laxén, 2012), they affect recall in short term- (Majerus & D'Argembeau, 2011;Mammarella, Borella, Carretti, Leonardi, & Fairfield, Emotional Norms for Spanish Words 5 2013; Monnier & Syssau, 2008) and long-term memory (Dewhurst & Parry, 2000;Kensinger & Corkin, 2003;Talmi & Moscovitch, 2004), and they modulate attention effects (Mathewson, Arnell, & Mansfield, 2008;Stormark, Nordby, & Hugdahl, 1995). The interest in the effects of emotional properties on language processing goes beyond single-words, with several studies looking into their effect on the morpho-syntactic processing of sentences.…”

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Norms of valence and arousal for 14,031 Spanish words

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Most current models of research on emotion recognize valence (how pleasant a stimulus is) and arousal (the level of activation or intensity that a stimulus elicits) as important components in the classification of affective experiences (Barrett, 1998; Kuppens, Tuerlinckx, Russell, & Barrett, 2012). Here we present a set of norms for valence and arousal for a very large set of Spanish words, including items from a variety of frequencies, semantic categories, and parts of speech, including a subset of conjugated verbs. In this regard, we found that there were significant but very small differences between the ratings for conjugations of the same verb, validating the practice of applying the ratings for infinitives to all derived forms of the verb. Our norms show a high degree of reliability and are strongly correlated with those of Redondo, Fraga, Padron, and Comesana's (2007) Spanish version of the influential Affective Norms for English Words (Bradley & Lang, 1999), as well as those from Warriner, Kuperman, and Brysbaert (2013), the largest available set of emotional norms for English words. Additionally, we included measures of word prevalence-that is, the percentage of participants that knew a particular word-for each variable (Keuleers, Stevens, Mandera, & Brysbaert, 2015). Our large set of norms in Spanish not only will facilitate the creation of stimuli and the analysis of texts in that language, but also will be useful for cross-language comparisons and research on emotional aspects of bilingualism. The norms can be downloaded and available as a supplementary materials to this article

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“…Given that the word repetition tests present material having a greater semantic load than that of digits, we would expect a better performance of participants with deficit in the phonoarticulatory loop during word repetition than during digit span tests, such as previously observed 26 . It was compared verbal short-term memory with pleasant and neutral words and concluded that pleasantness have a facilitation effect on both immediate serial recall and immediate serial recognition.…”

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The relationship between working memory and apraxia of speech

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Ortiz

2009

Arq. Neuro-Psiquiatr.

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-The present study aimed to verify the relationship between working memory (WM) and apraxia of speech and explored which WM components were involved in the motor planning of speech. A total of 22 patients and 22 healthy adults were studied. These patients were selected according to the following inclusion criteria: a single brain lesion in the left hemisphere, presence of apraxia of speech and sufficient oral comprehension. This study involved assessment of apraxia of speech and evaluation of working memory capacity. The performance of apraxic patients was significantly poorer than that of controls, where this reached statistical significance. The study concluded that participants with apraxia of speech presented a working memory deficit and that this was probably related to the articulatory process of the phonoarticulatory loop. Furthermore, all apraxic patients presented a compromise in working memory.Key Words: memory, working memory, speech production, motor planning of speech, apraxia, apraxia of speech.a interrelação entre memória operacional e apraxia de fala resumo -o objetivo do presente estudo foi verificar a interrelação entre memória operacional e apraxia verbal e explorar quais os componentes desta memória estariam envolvidos na programação motora da fala. Foram avaliados 22 pacientes apráxicos e 22 controles. Todos os participantes foram submetidos a avaliação da apraxia de fala. Para investigar a memória operacional, foram aplicados o teste de span de dígitos na ordem direta e inversa, um teste de repetição de palavras longas e curtas e o Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, que investiga, além da alça articulatória, o buffer episódico. o desempenho dos apráxicos em todos os testes de memória foi estatisticamente significante mais baixo que o desempenho dos controles. Concluímos que indivíduos com apraxia apresentam um déficit na memória operacional e que este déficit está mais relacionado ao processo articulatório da alça fonoarticulatória.PALAVrAs-CHAVe: memória, memória operacional, programação motora da fala, apraxia, apraxia verbal. The first and most-used definition of working memory (WM) was devised by Allan Baddeley 1 who conceived this as a system enabling temporary storage and manipulation of information required to carry out the complex activities of language processing, learning and reasoning. In 2000, Baddeley 2 made the final additions to the WM model which currently encompasses the central executive, visuo-spatial sketchpad, phonoarticulatory loops, and episodic buffer. The phonoarticulatory loop may be divided into the phonological store and articulatory process. The former involves storage of all material from auditory code while the latter is responsible for temporary holding of this material in the memory allowing subsequent retrieval 3 . studies have shown that WM span may vary and that factors such as phonemic similarity and word length can influence memory processing [3][4][5] . It was also investigated the capacity of WM during impeded retention of auditory informatio...

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Semantic contribution to verbal short-term memory: Are pleasant words easier to remember than neutral words in serial recall and serial recognition?

Cited by 49 publications

References 43 publications

Verbal short-term memory reflects the organization of long-term memory: Further evidence from short-term memory for emotional words

Verbal short-term memory reflects the organization of long-term memory: Further evidence from short-term memory for emotional words

Norms of valence and arousal for 14,031 Spanish words

The relationship between working memory and apraxia of speech

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