In for a penny, in for a pound: examining motivated memory through the lens of retrieved context models.
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Publication Date
2021-12Journal Title
Learning and Memory
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1072-0502
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
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Talmi, D., Kavaliauskaite, D., & Daw, N. D. (2021). In for a penny, in for a pound: examining motivated memory through the lens of retrieved context models.. Learning and Memory https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.053470.121
Abstract
When people encounter items that they believe will help them gain reward, they later remember them better than others. A recent model of emotional memory, the emotional context maintenance and retrieval model (eCMR), predicts that these effects would be stronger when stimuli that predict high and low reward can compete with each other during both encoding and retrieval. We tested this prediction in two experiments. Participants were promised £1 for remembering some pictures, but only a few pence for remembering others. Their recall of the content of the pictures they saw was tested after 1 min and, in experiment 2, also after 24 h. Memory at the immediate test showed effects of list composition. Recall of stimuli that predicted high reward was greater than of stimuli that predicted lower reward, but only when high- and low-reward items were studied and recalled together, not when they were studied and recalled separately. More high-reward items in mixed lists were forgotten over a 24-h retention interval compared with items studied in other conditions, but reward did not modulate the forgetting rate, a null effect that should be replicated in a larger sample. These results confirm eCMR's predictions, although further research is required to compare that model against alternatives.
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DT was supported by the Royal Society IE160027. DK was supported by the University of Manchester Learning Through Research initiative. ND was supported by grant DA038891 from NIDA, part of the CRCNS program, and grant 57876 from the John Templeton Foundation.
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2022-11-16
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.053470.121
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