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What creates a valuable cue? The underestimated importance of a cues diagnostic value over the encoding retrieval match for successful memory retrieval

Madsen, Tove LU and Widén, Paula LU (2014) PSYK11 20141
Department of Psychology
Abstract (Swedish)
Målet med denna studie är att undersöka betydelsen av det diagnostiska värdet hos en ledtråd, en så kallad “cue” framför värdet av ett kontextuellt överlapp mellan inkodning och framplockning av minnen. Ett minnestest grundat på ledtrådsbaserat igenkännande, så kallat “cued recognition”, genomfördes. Samtliga deltagare presenterades för ordpar tillsammans med kontextuella bilder i tre betingelser, (1) baseline, där kontexten mellan inlärningsfas och testfas inte överlappade, (2) icke-diagnostisk, där samma kontextuella information associerades till flera ordpar, samt (3) diagnostisk betingelse, där unik kontextuell information presenterades, så att ledtråden blev associerat med enbart ett ordpar. Deltagarna ombads fokusera på ordparen så... (More)
Målet med denna studie är att undersöka betydelsen av det diagnostiska värdet hos en ledtråd, en så kallad “cue” framför värdet av ett kontextuellt överlapp mellan inkodning och framplockning av minnen. Ett minnestest grundat på ledtrådsbaserat igenkännande, så kallat “cued recognition”, genomfördes. Samtliga deltagare presenterades för ordpar tillsammans med kontextuella bilder i tre betingelser, (1) baseline, där kontexten mellan inlärningsfas och testfas inte överlappade, (2) icke-diagnostisk, där samma kontextuella information associerades till flera ordpar, samt (3) diagnostisk betingelse, där unik kontextuell information presenterades, så att ledtråden blev associerat med enbart ett ordpar. Deltagarna ombads fokusera på ordparen så att den kontextuella ledtråden inte sågs som direkt relevant för minnesuppgiften. Hypotesen predicerar högre sannolikhet för korrekt igenkännande i den diagnostiska betingelsen i förhållande till andra betingelser. Resultatet visade en signifikant högre prestation i linje med presenterad hypotes och tidigare forskning. Resultatet ger ytterligare stöd för vikten av en ledtråds diagnostiska värde vid lyckad minnesframplockning, samt sträcker fyndet till kontextuella miljöer då tidigare studier varit semantiskt grundade. (Less)
Abstract
The aim of this study is to investigate the importance of a diagnostic cue over the mere contextual overlap between encoding and retrieval in successful retention. A cued recognition test was conducted to investigate the power of a contextual cues diagnostic value in successful retrieval of memories. Participants were presented with word pairs together with a picture background in three different conditions, (1) baseline, containing no contextual overlap thus no contextual retrieval cues (2) non-diagnostic, with the context being associated with several word pairs and (3) diagnostic, with the context only being associated with one target word. The participants were asked to focus on the word pairs, making the contextual cue task... (More)
The aim of this study is to investigate the importance of a diagnostic cue over the mere contextual overlap between encoding and retrieval in successful retention. A cued recognition test was conducted to investigate the power of a contextual cues diagnostic value in successful retrieval of memories. Participants were presented with word pairs together with a picture background in three different conditions, (1) baseline, containing no contextual overlap thus no contextual retrieval cues (2) non-diagnostic, with the context being associated with several word pairs and (3) diagnostic, with the context only being associated with one target word. The participants were asked to focus on the word pairs, making the contextual cue task irrelevant. The presented hypothesis assumes a higher accuracy for the diagnostic condition in relation to other conditions. Results showed a significantly higher level of recognition accuracy for the diagnostic condition in relation to the baseline condition and the non-diagnostic condition, supporting the hypothesis. The results provide additional support to the importance of a cues diagnostic value, while at the same time using contextual cues rather than semantic cues, which has not been done before. (Less)
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author
Madsen, Tove LU and Widén, Paula LU
supervisor
organization
course
PSYK11 20141
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
encoding specificity, cortical reinstatement, transfer-appropriate processing, cue overload, Encoding retrieval match, diagnostic value
language
English
id
4617273
date added to LUP
2014-09-10 16:31:58
date last changed
2014-09-10 16:31:58
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  abstract     = {{The aim of this study is to investigate the importance of a diagnostic cue over the mere contextual overlap between encoding and retrieval in successful retention. A cued recognition test was conducted to investigate the power of a contextual cues diagnostic value in successful retrieval of memories. Participants were presented with word pairs together with a picture background in three different conditions, (1) baseline, containing no contextual overlap thus no contextual retrieval cues (2) non-diagnostic, with the context being associated with several word pairs and (3) diagnostic, with the context only being associated with one target word. The participants were asked to focus on the word pairs, making the contextual cue task irrelevant. The presented hypothesis assumes a higher accuracy for the diagnostic condition in relation to other conditions. Results showed a significantly higher level of recognition accuracy for the diagnostic condition in relation to the baseline condition and the non-diagnostic condition, supporting the hypothesis. The results provide additional support to the importance of a cues diagnostic value, while at the same time using contextual cues rather than semantic cues, which has not been done before.}},
  author       = {{Madsen, Tove and Widén, Paula}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{What creates a valuable cue? The underestimated importance of a cues diagnostic value over the encoding retrieval match for successful memory retrieval}},
  year         = {{2014}},
}