TY - JOUR
T1 - The effect of perceptual information on output interference
AU - Chen, Sharon
AU - Malmberg, Kenneth J.
AU - Prince, Melissa
AU - Peckoo, Shantai
AU - Criss, Amy H.
N1 - Funding Information:
S.P. was supported by the Psychology Research in Diversity Enhancement program of the Department of Psychology at Syracuse University. M.P. is now at Flinders University. Authors are listed in order of their degree of involvement in the work, with the most substantial contributors listed first. All data and audio files are available at https://osf.io/znk4f/.
Funding Information:
Acknowledgements S.P. was supported by the Psychology Research in Diversity Enhancement program of the Department of Psychology at Syracuse University. M.P. is now at Flinders University. Authors are listed in order of their degree of involvement in the work, with the most substantial contributors listed first. All data and audio files are available at https://osf.io/znk4f/.
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© 2018, Psychonomic Society, Inc.
PY - 2019/2/15
Y1 - 2019/2/15
N2 - Retrieval from episodic memory has consequences (Malmberg, Lehman, Annis, Criss, & Shiffrin, The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 61; 285–313, 2014). In some cases, the consequences are beneficial, as in the improvement in memory for items that were already retrieved (Izawa, 1970, Journal of Experimental Psychology, 83(2, Pt.1), 340–344; Izawa, Journal of Experimental Psychology, 89(1): 10–21, 1971; Roediger & Karpicke, Psychological Science, 17(3), 249–255, 2006). In other cases, the consequences are negative, as in the case of output interference (OI; Wickens, Borne, & Allen, Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 2, 440–445, 1963). OI is the decrease in accuracy in episodic memory with increasing test trials. A release from OI is observed when accuracy rebounds following a switch in the category of item being tested (Criss, Salomão, Malmberg, Aue, Kilic, & Claridge, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64(4): 316–326, 2018; Malmberg, Criss, Gangwani, & Shiffrin, Psychological Science, 23(2): 115–119, 2012). In all reports thus far, a release from OI was observed when the conceptual information of stimuli was switched. Here, we evaluate the possibility that changing perceptual information causes a release from OI by presenting items in two perceptual forms (image, audio recording or printed text of the corresponding word) either mixed or blocked at test. A release from OI was observed only for images. We discuss the roles of conceptual and perceptual information in producing OI within the retrieving effectively from memory modeling framework.
AB - Retrieval from episodic memory has consequences (Malmberg, Lehman, Annis, Criss, & Shiffrin, The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 61; 285–313, 2014). In some cases, the consequences are beneficial, as in the improvement in memory for items that were already retrieved (Izawa, 1970, Journal of Experimental Psychology, 83(2, Pt.1), 340–344; Izawa, Journal of Experimental Psychology, 89(1): 10–21, 1971; Roediger & Karpicke, Psychological Science, 17(3), 249–255, 2006). In other cases, the consequences are negative, as in the case of output interference (OI; Wickens, Borne, & Allen, Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 2, 440–445, 1963). OI is the decrease in accuracy in episodic memory with increasing test trials. A release from OI is observed when accuracy rebounds following a switch in the category of item being tested (Criss, Salomão, Malmberg, Aue, Kilic, & Claridge, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64(4): 316–326, 2018; Malmberg, Criss, Gangwani, & Shiffrin, Psychological Science, 23(2): 115–119, 2012). In all reports thus far, a release from OI was observed when the conceptual information of stimuli was switched. Here, we evaluate the possibility that changing perceptual information causes a release from OI by presenting items in two perceptual forms (image, audio recording or printed text of the corresponding word) either mixed or blocked at test. A release from OI was observed only for images. We discuss the roles of conceptual and perceptual information in producing OI within the retrieving effectively from memory modeling framework.
KW - Interference
KW - Output interference
KW - Perceptual information
KW - Recognition memory
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U2 - 10.3758/s13423-018-1521-y
DO - 10.3758/s13423-018-1521-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 30120704
AN - SCOPUS:85052503881
SN - 1069-9384
VL - 26
SP - 269
EP - 278
JO - Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
JF - Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
IS - 1
ER -