Muhmenthaler, Michèle C.; Meier, Beat (22 November 2020). Response-category conflict improves memory for targets in a flanker paradigm (Unpublished). In: Virtual Psychonomics, the Psychonomic Society's 61st Annual Meeting. Online. 19.11.-22.11.2020.
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Cognitive conflict at encoding can provide for better subsequent memory. Specifically, previous research has shown that in incongruent Stroop trials, a conflict occurs because task-relevant and task-irrelevant representations, which require different responses, are co-activated. This response-category conflict leads to focused attention towards the target and this improves encoding and thus subsequent memory. In the present study, we investigated whether indeed a response-category conflict is responsible for the improved memory for incongruent targets rather than other features of the Stroop paradigm. Toward this goal we used a flanker paradigm. In the study phase two different classification tasks were flanked by stimuli that were either congruent or incongruent to the target, thus manipulating response-category conflict. Then we assessed recognition memory. The results showed that the response-category conflict enhanced subsequent memory for incongruent targets, implying an up-regulation of top-down control that fostered memory encoding. Thus, the results demonstrate that the beneficial memory effect of a response-category conflict generalizes to a flanker task.
Item Type: |
Conference or Workshop Item (Poster) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Cognitive Psychology, Perception and Methodology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Muhmenthaler, Michèle Christine, Meier, Beat |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Michèle Christine Muhmenthaler |
Date Deposited: |
12 Apr 2021 15:39 |
Last Modified: |
29 Mar 2023 23:37 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Flanker, cognitive control, memory |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/154789 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/154789 |
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