The upside of cumulative conceptual interference on exemplar-level mnemonic discrimination.

ABSTRACT: Although long-term visual memory (LTVM) has a remarkable capacity, the fidelity of its episodic representations can be influenced by at least two intertwined interference mechanisms during the encoding of objects belonging to the same category: the capacity to hold similar episodic traces (e.g., different birds) and the conceptual similarity of the encoded traces (e.g., a sparrow shares more features with a robin than with a penguin). The precision of episodic traces can be tested by having participants discriminate lures (unseen objects) from targets (seen objects) representing different exemplars of the same concept (e.g., two visually similar penguins), which generates interference at retrieval that can be solved if efficient pattern separation happened during encoding. The present stud

SUBMITTER: Delhaye E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11522113 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature