Smith, AV, McKeown, JD and Bunce, D orcid.org/0000-0003-3265-2700 (2017) Time manages interference in visual short-term memory. Memory, 25 (8). pp. 1117-1128. ISSN 0965-8211
Abstract
Emerging evidence suggests that age-related declines in memory may reflect a failure in pattern separation, a process that is believed to reduce the encoding overlap between similar stimulus representations during memory encoding. Indeed, behavioural pattern separation may be indexed by a visual continuous recognition task in which items are presented in sequence and observers report for each whether it is novel, previously viewed (old), or whether it shares features with a previously viewed item (similar). In comparison to young adults, older adults show a decreased pattern separation when the number of items between “old” and “similar” items is increased. Yet the mechanisms of forgetting underpinning this type of recognition task are yet to be explored in a cognitively homogenous group, with careful control over the parameters of the task, including elapsing time (a critical variable in models of forgetting). By extending the inter-item intervals, number of intervening items and overall decay interval, we observed in a young adult sample (N = 35, Mage = 19.56 years) that the critical factor governing performance was inter-item interval. We argue that tasks using behavioural continuous recognition to index pattern separation in immediate memory will benefit from generous inter-item spacing, offering protection from inter-item interference.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Memory on 31 January 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09658211.2016.1270967. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Visual memory, consolidation, interference, pattern separation, pattern completion |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 03 Feb 2017 11:43 |
Last Modified: | 31 Jan 2018 01:38 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2016.1270967 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09658211.2016.1270967 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:111583 |