Environmental context-dependent recognition memory using a short-term memory task for input. Academic Article

abstract

• Although many studies have demonstrated that recall is better when tested in the learning environmental context (EC) than in a new EC, almost all of the studies have failed to find EC-dependent memory when recognition was used to measure memory. Evidence of EC-dependent recognition, however, was found in the three experiments of the present study, in which an incidental short-term memory task was used for input of learned material. The results suggest that type of processing during input is a predictor of context-dependent recognition; material studied for a long-term memory test is not susceptible to background context effects, whereas material merely maintained for a short-term memory test is more apt to lead to EC-dependent recognition. 1986 Psychonomic Society, Inc.

authors

• Smith, Steven

published proceedings

• Mem Cognit

author list (cited authors)

• Smith, S. M.

citation count

• 51

complete list of authors

• Smith, SM

publication date

• July 1986

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Memory and Cognition  Journal

keywords

• Adult
• Humans
• Memory, Short-Term
• Paired-Associate Learning
• Set, Psychology

PubMed Central ID

• 3762389

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.3758/bf03202513

start page

• 347

end page

• 354

volume

• 14

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/bf03202513