Tsai, Pei‐Chun;
Sachdeva, Chhavi;
Gilbert, Sam J;
Scarampi, Chiara;
(2023)
An investigation of the saving-enhanced memory effect: The role of test order and list saving.
Applied Cognitive Psychology
10.1002/acp.4067.
(In press).
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Abstract
Saving information onto external resources can improve memory for subsequent information—a phenomenon known as the saving-enhanced memory effect. This article reports two preregistered online experiments investigating (A) whether this effect holds when to-be-remembered information is presented before the saved information and (B) whether people choose the most advantageous strategy when given free choice of which information to save. Participants studied two lists of words; test order and whether and which list was saved (and re-presented again later) were manipulated. The saving-enhanced memory effect was only found when the first list (List A) was saved and tested after the second list (List B). When free to choose which list to save, participants preferred to save List A, but only when it was recalled after List B—that is, when it benefited memory. These findings suggest boundary conditions for the saving-enhanced memory effect and that people offload the most profitable information.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | An investigation of the saving-enhanced memory effect: The role of test order and list saving |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/acp.4067 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4067 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Authors. Applied Cognitive Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | cognitive offloading, memory, metacognition, selectivity |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10169254 |
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