Semantic Congruence Accelerates the Onset of the Neural Signals of Successful Memory Encoding.

ABSTRACT: As the stream of experience unfolds, our memory system rapidly transforms current inputs into long-lasting meaningful memories. A putative neural mechanism that strongly influences how input elements are transformed into meaningful memory codes relies on the ability to integrate them with existing structures of knowledge or schemas. However, it is not yet clear whether schema-related integration neural mechanisms occur during online encoding. In the current investigation, we examined the encoding-dependent nature of this phenomenon in humans. We showed that actively integrating words with congruent semantic information provided by a category cue enhances memory for words and increases false recall. The memory effect of such active integration with congruent information was robust, even wit

SUBMITTER: Packard PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6596570 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature