An associative analysis of recognition memory

Recognition memory is a fundamental cognitive process which is often impaired in conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. In rodents, recognition memory is often studied using spontaneous object recognition tasks (SOR) in which objects that differ in terms of their novelty, recency, or prior location...

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Main Author: Keep, Benjamin
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/77404/
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description Recognition memory is a fundamental cognitive process which is often impaired in conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. In rodents, recognition memory is often studied using spontaneous object recognition tasks (SOR) in which objects that differ in terms of their novelty, recency, or prior location, are explored by animals. The theoretical basis and explanations of performance in these tasks remain controversial, often based on theories of familiarity and recollection. Sometimes opponent process (SOP) offers an alternative explanation and postulates that two priming processes underlie recognition memory. Self-generated priming occurs when a current stimulus has been recently experienced, and retrieval-generated priming arises when an object is predicted by another stimulus through prior association. In this thesis, I examined specific predictions of SOP using SOR task variants in mice. I explored associative and recency-based processes defined by SOP which may occur during object recognition memory. I used variants of the object in context task, which map onto retrieval-generated priming, to explore blocking and indirect object recognition effects, and used variants of the relative recency task, which map onto self-generated priming, to investigate distractor effects upon recency discrimination performance. I provided some evidence to support the use of SOP to study recognition memory during association-based and recency-based memory tasks. Further work is required to validate and develop these findings to establish this method as a suitable general framework for studying recognition memory.
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spelling nottingham-774042024-07-23T04:40:13Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/77404/ An associative analysis of recognition memory Keep, Benjamin Recognition memory is a fundamental cognitive process which is often impaired in conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. In rodents, recognition memory is often studied using spontaneous object recognition tasks (SOR) in which objects that differ in terms of their novelty, recency, or prior location, are explored by animals. The theoretical basis and explanations of performance in these tasks remain controversial, often based on theories of familiarity and recollection. Sometimes opponent process (SOP) offers an alternative explanation and postulates that two priming processes underlie recognition memory. Self-generated priming occurs when a current stimulus has been recently experienced, and retrieval-generated priming arises when an object is predicted by another stimulus through prior association. In this thesis, I examined specific predictions of SOP using SOR task variants in mice. I explored associative and recency-based processes defined by SOP which may occur during object recognition memory. I used variants of the object in context task, which map onto retrieval-generated priming, to explore blocking and indirect object recognition effects, and used variants of the relative recency task, which map onto self-generated priming, to investigate distractor effects upon recency discrimination performance. I provided some evidence to support the use of SOP to study recognition memory during association-based and recency-based memory tasks. Further work is required to validate and develop these findings to establish this method as a suitable general framework for studying recognition memory. 2024-07-23 Thesis (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/77404/1/Keep%2CBenjamin%2C20213167%2Ccorrections.pdf Keep, Benjamin (2024) An associative analysis of recognition memory. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. recognition memory cognition object recognition Alzheimer's disease
spellingShingle recognition memory
cognition
object recognition
Alzheimer's disease
Keep, Benjamin
An associative analysis of recognition memory
title An associative analysis of recognition memory
title_full An associative analysis of recognition memory
title_fullStr An associative analysis of recognition memory
title_full_unstemmed An associative analysis of recognition memory
title_short An associative analysis of recognition memory
title_sort associative analysis of recognition memory
topic recognition memory
cognition
object recognition
Alzheimer's disease
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/77404/