Improving Memory After Environmental Context Change: A Strategy of "Preinstatement"

Kimberly A. Brinegar; Melissa Lehman; Kenneth J. Malmberg

doi:10.3758/s13423-013-0383-6

Improving Memory After Environmental Context Change: A Strategy of "Preinstatement"

Kimberly A. Brinegar
, Melissa Lehman^*
, Kenneth J. Malmberg

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A change in environmental context between study and test can produce detrimental effects on memory. For instance, when a change in the environment occurs after an event, memory for the event declines. However, the negative effects of context change can be eliminated when participants are provided with contextual cues. Here, we report that, as predicted by the Lehman-Malmberg model (Lehman & Malmberg Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 35(4):970, 2009, Psychological Review, 2012), participants can overcome a change in the environment by recalling the future test environment while studying, a strategy referred to as preinstatement. © 2013 Psychonomic Society, Inc.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	528-533
Number of pages	6
Journal	Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
Volume	20
Issue number	3
Early online date	Jan 29 2013
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-013-0383-6
State	Published - Jun 2013
Externally published	Yes

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

Keywords

Context dependent memory
Environmental reinstatement
Free recall
Preinstatement

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