Examining the role of stimulus complexity in item and associative memory.
Episodic memory comprises memory for individual information units (item memory) and for the connections among them (associative memory). In two experiments using an object pair learning task, we examined the effect of visual stimulus complexity on memory encoding and retrieval mechanisms and on item...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 628 - 645 |
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Feb2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=183353353&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 183353353 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0090502X MEG jtl: Memory & Cognition issn: 0090502X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2025 vid: 53 iid: 2 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 183353353 10.3758/s13421-024-01590-z ppf: 628 ppct: 17 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 2.6MB tig: atl: Examining the role of stimulus complexity in item and associative memory. aug: au: Endemann, Ricarda Kamp, Siri-Maria affil: https://ror.org/02778hg05 Department of Neurocognitive Psychology, Trier University, Johanniterufer 15, 54290, Trier, Germany su: Recognition (Psychology) Age distribution Memory Semantics Cognition Brain physiology Evoked potentials (Electrophysiology) Photography Visual perception sug: subj: Recognition (Psychology) Age distribution Memory Semantics Cognition Brain physiology Evoked potentials (Electrophysiology) Photography Visual perception keyword: Aging Associative memory Late posterior negativity Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Psychology Stimulus complexity Aging Associative memory Late posterior negativity Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Psychology Stimulus complexity ab: Episodic memory comprises memory for individual information units (item memory) and for the connections among them (associative memory). In two experiments using an object pair learning task, we examined the effect of visual stimulus complexity on memory encoding and retrieval mechanisms and on item and associative memory performance. Subjects encoded pairs of black monochrome object images (low complexity, LC condition) or color photographs of objects (high complexity, HC condition) via interactive imagery, and subsequently item and associative recognition were tested. In Experiment 1, event-related potentials (ERPs) revealed an enhanced frontal N2 during encoding and an enhanced late posterior negativity (LPN) during item recognition in the HC condition, suggesting that memory traces containing visually more complex objects elicited a stronger effort in reconstructing the past episode. Item memory was consistently superior in the HC compared to the LC condition. Associative memory was either statistically unaffected by complexity (Experiment 1) or improved (Experiment 2) in the HC condition, speaking against a tradeoff between resources allocated to item versus associative memory, and hence contradicting results of some prior studies. In Experiment 2, in both young and older adults, both item and associative memory benefitted from stimulus complexity, such that the magnitude of the age-related associative deficit was not influenced by stimulus complexity. Together, these results suggest that if familiar objects are presented in a form that exhibits a higher visual complexity, which may support semantic processing, complexity can benefit both item and associative memory. Stimulus properties that enhance item memory can scaffold associative memory in this situation. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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