The beneficial effects of concept definition and interactive imagery tasks on associative memory : Evidence from event-related potentials

Copyright © 2024. Published by Elsevier B.V..

It is widely accepted that familiarity can support associative memory when the to-be-remember items are unitized into a new representation. However, there has been relatively little attention devoted to investigating the effects of different unitization manipulations on associative memory. The present study aimed to address this gap by examining the effects of varying levels of unitization through three tasks: Concept definition, interactive imagery, and sentence frame tasks. The behavioral results revealed that associative memory was significantly enhanced in the interactive imagery task compared to the sentence frame task. However, no significant differences were found between the sentence frame and concept definition tasks, or between the concept definition and interactive imagery tasks. In terms of the neural correlates, the event-related potential (ERP) results revealed that the sentence frame task only elicited a significant recollection-related LPC old/new effect, while the concept definition task only elicited a significant familiarity-related FN400 old/new effect. However, the interactive representation task elicited both of these distinct effects. These findings suggest that both the concept definition and interactive imagery tasks can enhance familiarity for supporting associative memory, but their beneficial effects on associative memory or LPC old/new effects may be different.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:197

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International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology - 197(2024) vom: 10. Feb., Seite 112300

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Liu, Zejun [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Wei [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Associative memory
Concept definition task
FN400 and LPC old/new effects
Interactive imagery task
Journal Article
Sentence frame task

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Date Completed 20.02.2024

Date Revised 20.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112300

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM367064987