Recently added articles from Memory & Cognition:
Doomed to repeat the successes of the past: History is best forgotten for repeated choices with nonstationary payoffs
Oct 01, 2009; ... Many everyday tasks involve repeated choices in which past outcomes are used to estimate payoffs but in which present payoffs may differ from past ones. Two experiments with 10 decision problems employing the decisions-from-feedback paradigm examined the choice between two risky options, wherein ...
Strength-based criterion shifts in recognition memory
Oct 01, 2009; ... In manipulations of stimulus strength between lists, a more lenient signal detection criterion is more frequently applied to a weak than to a strong stimulus class. However, with randomly intermixed weak and strong test probes, such a criterion shift often does not result. A procedure that has ...
Attention during memory retrieval enhances future remembering
Oct 01, 2009; ... Memory retrieval is a powerful learning event that influences whether an experience will be remembered in the future. Although retrieval can succeed in the presence of distraction, dividing attention during retrieval may reduce the power of remembering as an encoding event. In the present ...
Age differences in collaborative memory: The role of retrieval manipulations
Oct 01, 2009; ... In two experiments, we examined age differences in collaborative inhibition (reduced recall in pairs of people, relative to pooled individuals) across repeated retrieval attempts. Younger and older adults studied categorized word lists and were then given two consecutive recall tests and a ...
The tenacious nature of memory binding for arousing negative items
Oct 01, 2009; ... In two experiments, we investigated whether people are better or worse at updating memory for the location of emotional pictures than of neutral pictures. We measured participants' memories for the locations of both arousing negative pictures and neutral pictures while manipulating practice ...