Expectation-[in]congruence differentially impacts recall and recognition of object features.
Study events that are congruent with our prior expectations are better remembered than expectation-unrelated events. Paradoxically, events that are highly incongruent with expectations are also better remembered. In this study, we explore whether this paradoxical finding persists in object featural...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 85 - 109 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=191289395&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 191289395 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: Jan2026 vid: 54 iid: 1 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 191289395 10.3758/s13421-025-01740-x ppf: 85 ppct: 24 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 2.2MB tig: atl: Expectation-[in]congruence differentially impacts recall and recognition of object features. aug: au: Persaud, Kimele Macias, Carla Bonawitz, Elizabeth affil: https://ror.org/05vt9qd57 Department of Psychology, Rutgers University–Newark, Newark, NJ, USA https://ror.org/03vek6s52 Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA su: New Jersey Recognition (Psychology) Episodic memory Cognition Statistical power analysis Repeated measures design Research funding Data analysis Color vision Descriptive statistics Experimental design One-way analysis of variance Statistics Data analysis software Pattern perception receptors Thought & thinking sug: subj: Recognition (Psychology) Episodic memory Cognition New Jersey Statistical power analysis Repeated measures design Research funding Data analysis Color vision Descriptive statistics Experimental design One-way analysis of variance Statistics Data analysis software Pattern perception receptors Thought & thinking keyword: Color Congruency effects Memory Object-feature Prior expectations Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Psychology Recall Recognition Color Congruency effects Memory Object-feature Prior expectations Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Psychology Recall Recognition ab: Study events that are congruent with our prior expectations are better remembered than expectation-unrelated events. Paradoxically, events that are highly incongruent with expectations are also better remembered. In this study, we explore whether this paradoxical finding persists in object featural memory. Specifically, we examine whether memory for expectation-congruent and incongruent features of objects is differentially impacted by the processes that underlie recall and recognition and the types of information being probed. In three experiments, we manipulated the degree to which object features adhered to people's prior expectations (i.e., colors of objects) and then assessed memory (recall and recognition) for expectation-relevant features (i.e., object–color) and expectation-irrelevant features (i.e., object-shape). While both expectation-congruent and incongruent features were equally well recognized, only expectation-congruent features were better recalled compared to expectation-unrelated features. Furthermore, only strong expectation-congruence created a memory advantage for expectation-irrelevant object features. These findings suggest that in object featural memory, expectation-congruence and incongruence are qualitatively dissociable in their impact on recognition and recall processes. The findings from this work have important implications for cognitive and neuroscientific theories of how prior expectations shape the representation of objects and their constituent features in episodic memory. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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