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31-10-2023 | Research

Semantic relatedness can impair memory for item locations

Auteurs: Xinyi Lu, Mona J. H. Zhu, Evan F. Risko

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 3/2024

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Abstract

While memory for semantically related items is improved over unrelated items in many cases, relatedness can also lead to memory costs. Here we examined how the semantic relatedness of words within a display influenced memory for their locations. Participants learned the locations of words inside grid displays; the words in a given display were either from a single category or were from different assorted categories. When a display containing words from a single category was compared to a scrambled display containing words from multiple categories, location memory performance was rendered worse, while word recall performance was significantly improved. Our results suggest that semantically structured spaces can both help and harm memory within the context of a location memory task. We hypothesize that relatedness can improve memory performance by increasing the likelihood that matching candidates will be retrieved, yet might worsen performance that requires distinguishing between similar target representations.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Semantic relatedness can impair memory for item locations
Auteurs
Xinyi Lu
Mona J. H. Zhu
Evan F. Risko
Publicatiedatum
31-10-2023
Uitgeverij
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 3/2024
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-023-01889-7