Environmental context dependent memory

In a recent review of the literature on context dependent memory i n humans Smith and Vela 2001 stated that by most accou nts the context shift effect is more robust in animals than humans. Skip to search form Skip to main content Semantic Scholars Logo.

Context-dependent memory in a meaningful environment for medical education.

Environmental context dependent memory. Environmental context dependency is one of the most important characteristics of episodic memory. Episodic memory consists of the tracks of an individuals personal history. We conclude that environmental context-dependent memory effects are less likely to occur under conditions in which the immediate environment is likely to be suppressed.

To address questions about human memorys dependence on the coincidental environmental contexts in which events occur we review studies of incidenta. ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT-DEPENDENT MEMORY 205 iseyewitnessmemorywhichmayormaynotbeenhanced byreturningtheeyewitnesstothesceneofthewitnessed eventsMemoryinclinicaltherapyisanotherapplication area that could be affected by incidental. Environmental context refers to incidental information about the environment in which the focal information is processed.

The environmental context is encoded with the focal information into an episodic-memory trace and is used as a retrieval cue at the time of remembering. The ICE model account eg Murnane. Murnane Phelps Malmberg 1999 of environmental context EC-dependent recognition memory is described and new predictions concerning the effect of multiple presentation ECs are derived.

Experiment 1 tested the ICE model predictions in relation to predictions derived from the cue-overload hypothesis eg Watkins. In a recent review of the literature on context dependent memory i n humans Smith and Vela 2001 stated that by most accou nts the context shift effect is more robust in animals than humans. Context-dependent extinction is a process of disconnecting the memory from the environmental cues.

So for example if a soldier had a traumatic experience in a jungle setting those memories may be very vivid whenever theyre in that type of natural setting. If they have to live or work in such a setting they may suffer from PTSD until they can train themselves to dissociate the war. They concluded that environmental context-dependent memory effects are less likely to occur under conditions in which the immediate environment is likely to be suppressed.

This suppression of the immediate environment may be intentional such as when subjects avert their gaze or even close their eyes when trying to facilitate conceptual taught by disengagement from processing. The theory of context dependent memory claims that our ability to recall certain information is affected by the environmental context in which we happen to be in. If a person is coincidently in the.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT-DEPENDENT MEMORY 205 is eyewitness memory which may or may not be enhanced by returning the eyewitness to the scene of the witnessed events. Memory in clinical therapy is another application area that could be affected by incidental environmental context-dependent memory. Whether or not reluctant or.

Context-dependent memory in two natural environments 329 differential cheating between the four conditions with subjects in the WW group copying items down before the recall signal. Unfortunately since it was not practicable to combine monitoring of both the subject and the shore station this is a logical possibility. Context-dependent memory in a meaningful environment for medical education.

In the classroom and at the bedside In medical education the context if conceived as physical surroundings does not seem to contribute to a same-context advantage. One should be cautious in. A classification of context effects is presented and the conditions where such effects are likely to be maximized or minimized are specified.

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Some features of the site may not work correctly. Environmental contextdependent memory. In a free recall experiment divers learnt lists of words in two natural environments.

On dry land and underwater and recalled the words in either the environment of original learning or in the alternative environment. Lists learnt underwater were best recalled underwater and vice versa. A subsequent experiment shows that the disruption of moving from one environment to the other was.

A meta analysis indicates that memory performance benefits from a stability between encoding and test context unless attention is drawn away from the test environment for instance by asking subjects to focus on other aspects of the to-be-remembered material such as inter-item associations Smith and Vela 2001. Based on this result we should expect better memory for set 1 when recall is performed in the same test environment. We conclude that environmental context-dependent memory effects are less likely to occur under conditions in which the immediate environment is likely to be suppressed.

• Although life is continually played out within physical contexts the degree of ones experience of involvement with such environments varies considerably. The attention of a driver engrossed in thought or conversation for example can be largely withdrawn from road conditions. In such circumstances the environment.