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When does generation enhance memory for location?

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Marsh, EJ
Published in: Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition
September 2006

Generation is thought to enhance both item-specific and relational processing of generated targets as compared with read words (M. A. McDaniel & P. J. Waddill, 1990). Generation facilitates encoding of the cue-target relation and sometimes boosts encoding of relations across list items. Of interest is whether generation can also increase the encoding of target-location associations. Because the literature on this point is mixed, 3 procedural differences between 2 studies (E. J. Marsh, G. Edelman, & G. H. Bower, 2001; N. W. Mulligan, 2004) were identified and manipulated. A positive generation effect was found for location memory, but this effect was reduced when subjects wrote down the study words and when the filler task involved generation. Generation can enhance location memory in addition to item memory but only if the experimental parameters do not interfere with the processing benefits of generation.

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Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition

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1939-1285

ISSN

0278-7393

Publication Date

September 2006

Volume

32

Issue

5

Start / End Page

1216 / 1220

Related Subject Headings

  • Writing
  • Verbal Behavior
  • Thinking
  • Recognition, Psychology
  • Reading
  • Paired-Associate Learning
  • Mental Recall
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Generalization, Psychological
 

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Marsh, E. J. (2006). When does generation enhance memory for location? Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32(5), 1216–1220. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.32.5.1216
Marsh, Elizabeth J. “When does generation enhance memory for location?Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition 32, no. 5 (September 2006): 1216–20. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.32.5.1216.
Marsh EJ. When does generation enhance memory for location? Journal of experimental psychology Learning, memory, and cognition. 2006 Sep;32(5):1216–20.
Marsh, Elizabeth J. “When does generation enhance memory for location?Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition, vol. 32, no. 5, Sept. 2006, pp. 1216–20. Epmc, doi:10.1037/0278-7393.32.5.1216.
Marsh EJ. When does generation enhance memory for location? Journal of experimental psychology Learning, memory, and cognition. 2006 Sep;32(5):1216–1220.

Published In

Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition

DOI

EISSN

1939-1285

ISSN

0278-7393

Publication Date

September 2006

Volume

32

Issue

5

Start / End Page

1216 / 1220

Related Subject Headings

  • Writing
  • Verbal Behavior
  • Thinking
  • Recognition, Psychology
  • Reading
  • Paired-Associate Learning
  • Mental Recall
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Generalization, Psychological