Temporal Regularity May Not Improve Memory for Item-Specific Detail.

ABSTRACT: Regularities in event timing allow for the allocation of attention to critical time-points when an event is most likely to occur, leading to improved visual perception. Results from recent studies indicate that similar benefits may extend to memory for scenes and objects. Here, we investigated whether benefits of temporal regularity are evident when detailed, item-specific representations are necessary for successful recognition memory performance. In Experiments 1 and 2, pictures of objects were presented with either predictable or randomized event timing, in separate encoding blocks. In the test phase, old and new objects were presented, intermixed with perceptually similar exemplars of encoded objects. In Experiment 3 we attempted to replicate previously reported memory enhancements for

SUBMITTER: Kulkarni M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7991072 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature