Memory

Memory

Published by Taylor & Francis

Online ISSN: 1464-0686

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Print ISSN: 0965-8211

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Figure 2. Possible outcome scenarios in equivalence testing.
Figure 3. Possible outcome scenarios in minimum-effect testing.
Meaningful approaches to assessing the size of effects in memory research: applications and recommendations for study design, interpretation, and analysis

April 2025

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Mark L Howe

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Aims and scope


Publishes research in all areas of memory research, including experimental, developmental, educational, neuropsychological, clinical and social studies.

  • By representing all significant areas of memory research, the journal cuts across the traditional distinctions of psychological research. Memory therefore provides a unique venue for memory researchers to communicate their findings and ideas both to peers within their own research tradition in the study of memory, and also to the wider range of research communities with direct interest in human memory.
  • Peer Review: All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees....

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Recent articles


The trigger mechanism of the target detection task influencing recognition memory at Stimulus Onset Asynchrony of 0.5 s: evidence from the remember-know paradigm
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May 2025

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Chenyang Shang

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Meng Sun

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Average number of references to different types of contextual information per interview, by cultural group.
The way we remember and report: an experiment testing cultural differences in eyewitness memory
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May 2025

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Do differences in topic knowledge matter? An experimental investigation into topic knowledge as a possible moderator of the testing effect

May 2025

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Verbalisation of processes underlying prospective memory

March 2025

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Although prospective memory (PM) has been studied extensively, relatively little research has addressed errors in different steps of PM performance. The aim of this study was to examine errors occurring in different phases of the microstructure model in PM performance and whether verbalisation can serve in their measurement. We report the results of two experiments in which young adults were divided into experimental and control groups. Both groups solved either a 3-day (Experiment 1) or a 5-day (Experiment 2) version of the Virtual week (VW) task. Experimental groups had to verbalise each PM task before performing it. The results of Experiment 1 showed that verbalisation may prolong the time to execute the task, but in both experiments, verbalisation did not affect the PM performance. In analysing different types of errors, we found that: (1) prospective component errors are more often caused by tasks requiring greater strategic monitoring (only Experiment 1), (2) recall component errors are evident in irregular tasks, and (3) execution errors are more often evidenced in tasks with greater response competition. This confirms that there is a wide range of processes that can lead to PM failures, and verbalisation is one method by which we can detect them.


Figure 3. Results of random intercept logistic mixed-effects model in Experiment 2. Shaded areas represent 95% confidence intervals.
Figure 4. Regression coefficients for the relationship between guessing and likelihood of correct recall as mediated by final curiosity (standardised) in Experiment 2. * indicates that the confidence interval did not contain zero.
Does repetition enhance curiosity to learn trivia question answers? Implications for memory and motivated learning

March 2025

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Curiosity, an intrinsic desire to seek new information, benefits motivation and learning. While curiosity is associated with novelty, less is known about how the repetition of a question without its answer affects curiosity and memory. In two experiments, participants viewed 60 trivia questions, half of which were repeated, and rated their curiosity to learn the answers. Repeated questions had their answers revealed during the second presentation, and participants were given a cued-recall test after 24 h. We found that curiosity ratings remained constant across presentations, but when repeated and non-repeated questions were intermixed, participants were more curious about non-repeated questions, which were relatively more novel (Experiment 1). However, when participants guessed answers before studying them (pretesting), they were more curious about repeated questions (Experiment 2). Curiosity ratings also increased across presentations, perhaps reflecting greater cognitive agency motivated by an eagerness to verify one’s guess. Overall, the subjective experience of curiosity appears to be influenced by both relative novelty, as manipulated through repetition, and task demands, specifically whether individuals engage in pretesting, indicating that curiosity-based learning is shaped by various cognitive operations.










Comparison of working memory performance in athletes and non-athletes: a meta-analysis of behavioural studies

January 2025

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The relationship between sports expertise and working memory (WM) has garnered increasing attention in experimental research. However, no meta-analysis has compared WM performance between athletes and non-athletes. This study addresses this gap by comparing WM performance between these groups and investigating potential moderators. A comprehensive literature search identified 21 studies involving 1455 participants from seven databases, including PubMed, Embase, and ProQuest. Athletes primarily engaged in basketball, football, and fencing, while non-athletes included some identified as sedentary. The risk of bias assessment indicated low risk across most domains. Publication bias, assessed through a funnel plot and statistical tests, showed no significant evidence of bias. The forest plot, using a random effects model, revealed moderate heterogeneity. The overall effect size indicated a statistically significant, albeit small, advantage for athletes over non-athletes (Hedges' g = 0.30), persisting across sports types and performance levels. Notably, this advantage was more pronounced when athletes were contrasted with a sedentary population (Hedges' g = 0.63), compared to the analysis where the sedentary population was excluded from the non-athlete reference group (Hedges' g = 0.15). Our findings indicate a consistent link between sports expertise and improved WM performance, while sedentary lifestyles appear to be associated with WM disadvantages.


Figure 1. Mean accuracy for face descriptors in Experiment 1, as a function of beverage group, hair condition and face region. Error bars show 95% confidence intervals.
Figure 2. Mean accuracy for face descriptors in Experiment 2, as a function of beverage group, hair condition and face region. Error bars show 95% confidence intervals.
The influence of acute alcohol intoxication and hair visibility on delayed face recall

January 2025

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Many witnesses are intoxicated at crime scenes, yet little is known of their ability to accurately describe perpetrators to police. We therefore explored the impact of alcohol on delayed verbal face recall across two experiments. Participants were administered an alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverage prior to viewing either one or two unfamiliar female faces, which they described from memory the following day while in a sober state. Each to-be-remembered model had long hair worn either loose (i.e., visible), or tied behind the head (i.e., concealed). Testing the hypothesis that alcohol narrows the focus of attention to the external (hairstyle) region of faces, we expected intoxicated participants to have poorer memory of internal face features (eyes, nose, mouth) than sober controls for stimulus faces with visibly long hair. Results revealed poorer recall accuracy for internal face details following alcohol consumption (Exp. 2), but the effect was uninfluenced by hairstyle. Findings are therefore consistent with the more general view that alcohol is associated with a bias to the external (hairstyle) region of faces during face learning, irrespective of hair visibility.




Journal metrics


2.2 (2023)

Journal Impact Factor™


43%

Acceptance rate


3.5 (2023)

CiteScore™


49 days

Submission to first decision


1.026 (2023)

SNIP


0.791 (2023)

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