Integrating educational knowledge: reactivation of prior knowledge during educational learning enhances memory integration.

ABSTRACT: In everyday life and in education, we continuously build and structure our knowledge. Successful knowledge construction is suggested to happen through reactivation of previously learned information during new learning. This reactivation is presumed to lead to integration of old and new memories and strengthen long-term retention. Additionally, congruency with prior knowledge is shown to enhance subsequent memory. However, it is unknown how subjective reactivation and congruency jointly influence learning in an educational context. In two experiments, we investigated this question using an AB-AC inference paradigm where students were asked to first study an AB (word-picture) and then an AC-association (word-description). BC-associations were either congruent or incongruent and were linked b

SUBMITTER: van Kesteren MTR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6220240 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature