Titre :

The effect of long-term working memory through personalization applied to free recall : Uncurbing the primacy-effect enthusiasm

Auteur(s) :

Guida, Alessandro [Auteur]
Gras, Doriane [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle [LLF UMR7110]
Noel, Y. [Auteur]
Institut d’Électronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie - UMR 8520 [IEMN]
Le Bohec, Olivier [Auteur]
Centre de Recherches en Psychologie Cognition et Communication [CRPCC EA 1285]
Quaireau, Christophe [Auteur]
Centre de Recherches en Psychologie Cognition et Communication [CRPCC EA 1285]
Nicolas, S. [Auteur]
Amélioration génétique et adaptation des plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales [UMR AGAP]

Titre de la revue :

Memory and Cognition

Pagination :

571-587

Date de publication :

2013

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

linguistics

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Psychologie

Résumé en anglais : [en]

In this study, a personalization method (Guida, Tardieu, & Nicolas, European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 21: 862-896 2009) was applied to a free-recall task. Fifteen pairs of words, composed of an object and a location, ...
Lire la suite >In this study, a personalization method (Guida, Tardieu, & Nicolas, European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 21: 862-896 2009) was applied to a free-recall task. Fifteen pairs of words, composed of an object and a location, were presented to 93 participants, who had to mentally associate each pair and subsequently recall the objects. A 30-s delay was introduced on half of the trials, the presentation rate was manipulated (5 or 10 s per item), and verbal and visuospatial working memory tests were administered to test for their effects on the serial curve. Two groups were constituted: a personalized group, for whom the locations were well-known places on their university campus, and a nonpersonalized group, for whom the locations did not refer to known places. Since personalization putatively operationalizes long-term working memory (Ericsson & Kintsch, Psychological Review, 102: 211-245 1995)-namely, the capacity to store information reliably and rapidly in long-term memory-and if we take a dual-store approach to memory, the personalization advantage would be expected to be greater for pre-recency than for recency items. Overall, the results were compatible with long-term working memory theory. They contribute to validating the personalization method as a methodology to characterize the contribution of long-term memory storage to performance in working memory tasks.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Vulgarisation :

Non

Collections :

• Institut d'Électronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie (IEMN) - UMR 8520

Source :

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