13:30 - 15:00
Tue-HS3-Talk V-
Tue-Talk V-
Room: HS3
Chair/s:
Nikoletta Symeonidou, Hilal Tanyas
Source memory is a cognitive process involved in remembering contextual features of information. This symposium will bring together five researchers who will present recent evidence obtained from various substantive research questions about source memory. First, Tanyas et al. give a talk entitled “Testing the Serial Processing Model of Item and Source Retrieval: Applying the Additive Factor Method to Source Monitoring” and ask whether retrieval processes for an item (e.g., what was said?) and its source (e.g., who said it?) operate serially or in parallel. Focusing on more applied source memory research, Ülker and Bodemer examine external source memory (also with the “who said what” paradigm) and knowledge acquisition in a pseudo-collaborative setting with their talk “Source Memory and Collaborative Learning: The Role of Group Composition and Conflicting Information”. Following this, Symeonidou and Kuhlmann give a presentation namely “Enhanced Source Memory for Emotional Sources: What Is the Role of Encoding Instructions?” where they investigate how encoding instructions influence source-emotionality effects on source memory by using multinomial modeling. The next talk is “Exploring Source Memory to Understand the Mechanisms of JOL Reactivity.” by Loaiza et al. By using a novel implementation of a hierarchical Bayesian model of multidimensional source memory, they query in their registered report, how the act of assessing one’s learning influences later memory. Finally, NiedziaƂkowska and NieznaƄski present their work entitled “How Does Cognitive Load Influence Recollection of True/False Information?” and report findings revealing that cognitive load impairs recollection of false information compared to true information.
Enhanced Source Memory for Emotional Sources: What Is the Role of Encoding Instructions?
Tue-HS3-Talk V-03
Presented by: Nikoletta Symeonidou
Nikoletta Symeonidou, Beatrice Gisele Kuhlmann
University of Mannheim
Previous research on whether source memory is enhanced for emotional sources yielded inconclusive results. To clarify these inconsistencies, we examined whether encoding instructions moderate source-emotionality effects. In both experiments, we used neutral words as items superimposed on emotional (negative or positive) or neutral pictures as sources. Source memory was measured with a multinomial model. In Experiment 1 (N = 68), we applied an affective, item-focused orienting task (i.e., word-pleasantness ratings) during encoding and found enhanced source memory for emotional (positive and negative) compared to neutral sources. In Experiment 2 (N = 216), we systematically manipulated encoding instructions and found that emotionality effects in source memory only occur with an affective orienting task (as in Experiment 1) but do not occur with an integrative orienting task (item-source-fit judgments), a purely item-focused orienting task (living-non-living judgments), or with intentional (vs. incidental) item (vs. source) learning. Thus, our research overall suggests that emotional sources per se are not remembered better. Rather, source-emotionality effects might unfold only if affective item processing takes place.
Keywords: source memory, emotion-enhanced memory, orienting task, multinomial modeling