Torres-Trejo F, Cansino S. The Effects of the Amount of Information on Episodic Memory Binding.
Adv Cogn Psychol 2016;
12:79-87. [PMID:
27512526 PMCID:
PMC4975570 DOI:
10.5709/acp-0188-z]
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Abstract
The effects of increasing the number of items to be remembered on associative
recognition and cued recall were examined. Thirty participants were asked during
encoding to determine whether two- and three-item stimuli contained natural
objects, artificial objects, or both. In an associative recognition task, the
participants indicated whether the stimuli were identical to those presented
during encoding, were rearranged by exchanging one of the two-item stimuli for
one of the three-item stimuli, or represented a new stimulus. The correctly
identified rearranged item pairs and triads were included in a subsequent
cued-recall task in which participants verbally reported the missing item. As
the number of items increased, the discrimination of rearranged stimuli
diminished, but that of identical trials remained the same. Furthermore, the
ability to retrieve the missing item was unaffected. It was concluded that the
effect of the amount of information on binding depends on how the information
must be retrieved.
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