Reinstating verbal memories with virtual contexts: Myth or reality?

ABSTRACT: When learning new information, contextual information about the encoding situation is stored in addition to the focal memory content. Later, these strings of extra information can help retrieve the learned content as demonstrated by experiments where contextual cues from an encoding situation facilitate remembering and improve memory performance when reinstated during retrieval. This context-dependent memory effect has been investigated over the course of several decades and has been demonstrated with many different types of contexts. Based on this, the widely held belief is that context-dependent memory is a strong and robust effect, with transferable substance for everyday learning and potential clinical applications. Here we report the results of a multi-study design investigating the i

SUBMITTER: Walti MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6440692 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature