Temporal contexts: Filling the gap between episodic memory and associative learning
People can create temporal contexts, or episodes, and stimuli that belong to the same context can later be used to retrieve the memory of other events that occurred at the same time. This can occur in the absence of direct contingency and contiguity between the events, which poses a challenge to ass...
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| author | Matute, H. Lipp, Ottmar Vadillo, M. Humphreys, M. |
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| description | People can create temporal contexts, or episodes, and stimuli that belong to the same context can later be used to retrieve the memory of other events that occurred at the same time. This can occur in the absence of direct contingency and contiguity between the events, which poses a challenge to associative theories of learning and memory. Because this is a learning and memory problem, we propose an integrated approach. Theories of temporal contexts developed in the memory tradition provide interesting predictions that we test using the methods of associative learning to assess their generality and applicability to different settings and dependent variables. In 4 experiments, the integration of these 2 areas allows us to show that (a) participants spontaneously create temporal contexts in the absence of explicit instructions; (b) cues can be used to retrieve an old temporal context and the information associated with other cues that were trained in that context; and (c) the memory of a retrieved temporal context can be updated with information from the current situation that does not fit well with the retrieved memory, thereby helping participants to best adapt their behavior to the future changes of the environment. © 2011 American Psychological Association. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-366112018-03-29T09:08:49Z Temporal contexts: Filling the gap between episodic memory and associative learning Matute, H. Lipp, Ottmar Vadillo, M. Humphreys, M. People can create temporal contexts, or episodes, and stimuli that belong to the same context can later be used to retrieve the memory of other events that occurred at the same time. This can occur in the absence of direct contingency and contiguity between the events, which poses a challenge to associative theories of learning and memory. Because this is a learning and memory problem, we propose an integrated approach. Theories of temporal contexts developed in the memory tradition provide interesting predictions that we test using the methods of associative learning to assess their generality and applicability to different settings and dependent variables. In 4 experiments, the integration of these 2 areas allows us to show that (a) participants spontaneously create temporal contexts in the absence of explicit instructions; (b) cues can be used to retrieve an old temporal context and the information associated with other cues that were trained in that context; and (c) the memory of a retrieved temporal context can be updated with information from the current situation that does not fit well with the retrieved memory, thereby helping participants to best adapt their behavior to the future changes of the environment. © 2011 American Psychological Association. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36611 10.1037/a0023862 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Matute, H. Lipp, Ottmar Vadillo, M. Humphreys, M. Temporal contexts: Filling the gap between episodic memory and associative learning |
| title | Temporal contexts: Filling the gap between episodic memory and associative learning |
| title_full | Temporal contexts: Filling the gap between episodic memory and associative learning |
| title_fullStr | Temporal contexts: Filling the gap between episodic memory and associative learning |
| title_full_unstemmed | Temporal contexts: Filling the gap between episodic memory and associative learning |
| title_short | Temporal contexts: Filling the gap between episodic memory and associative learning |
| title_sort | temporal contexts: filling the gap between episodic memory and associative learning |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36611 |