Entering into a self-regulated learning mode prevents detrimental effects of feedback removal on memory.

ABSTRACT: Incentives can decrease performance by undermining intrinsic motivation. How such an interplay of external reinforcers and internal self-regulation influences memory processes, however, is less known. Here, we investigated their interaction on memory performance while learning the meaning of new-words from their context. Specifically, participants inferred congruent meanings of new-words from semantic context (congruent trials) or lack of congruence (incongruent trials), while receiving external feedback in the first or second half of trials only. Removing feedback during learning of congruent word meanings lowered subsequent recognition rates a day later, whereas recognition remained high in the group, which received feedback only in the second half. In contrast, feedback did not substant

SUBMITTER: Vavra P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9823107 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature