Conveners
Old and new perspectives on the study of human memory: JUNIOR SYMPOSIUM
- Daniele Gatti (Università di Pavia)
Chair(s): Giulia Marselli e Daniele Gatti
Human memory is a complex cognitive function that ranges from basic abilities to high-level processes. In this symposium, we aim to explore the study of human memory from multiple perspectives, bringing together evidence from various subfields. The five talks will cover a wide range of topics, with the specific goal of showcasing the diversity and...
Memory differences between men and women have been a research topic for some time: Rubin et al. (1999) found no sex differences in the distribution of autobiographical memories throughout life, their significance, the ratings assigned to them, or the knowledge of events. The only exception they found was that men scored higher than women on factual questions about current events and...
Transitional events are significant life experiences that organize autobiographical memory by introducing substantial psychological and material changes to individuals' everyday lives. The amount of change associated with transitional events is measured by the Transitional Impact Scale (TIS). In this study, we employed an adapted version of the TIS for both past and anticipated future...
Autobiographical memory can be distorted, supporting the maintenance of a positive self-image (e.g., self-enhancement concept; Conway & Pleydell-Pearce, 2000). In this line, preliminary evidence has shown that memories of immoral actions can be characterized by distortions (e.g., less details or being blurry) and elicit a so-called “immoral amnesia” that may also be one of the underlying...
The Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm has always been a reliable and versatile tool to investigate the phenomenon of false memories in a laboratory setting.
Originally structured using linguistic stimuli, in this paradigm participants are generally asked to memorize a series of lists of words and then to recognize them among newly presented items. False recognitions frequently occur in...
Semantic knowledge plays an active role in many well-known false memory phenomena, including those emerging from the Deese–Roediger–McDermott (DRM) task. In this experimental paradigm, indeed, humans tend to falsely recognize newly presented words via activation of other previously shown stimuli. In the present study we aimed to test what happens in cases in which no apparent prior semantic...
