Semantic influences on episodic memory distortions.

ABSTRACT: Prior knowledge has long been known to shape new episodic memories. However, it is less clear how prior knowledge can scaffold the learning of a new class of information, and how this can bias memory for the episodes that contributed to its acquisition. We aimed to quantify distortions in episodic memories resulting from the use of prior category knowledge to facilitate learning new information. Across 4 experiments, participants encoded and retrieved image-location associations. Most members of a category (e.g., birds) were located near each other, such that participants could leverage their prior category knowledge to learn the spatial locations of categories as they encoded specific image locations. Critically, some typical and atypical category members were in random locations. We deco

SUBMITTER: Tompary A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8800368 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature