Adaptive Memory: Animacy Processing Produces Mnemonic Advantages

It is adaptive to remember animates, particularly animate agents, because they play an important role in survival and reproduction. Yet, surprisingly, the role of animacy in mnemonic processing has received little direct attention in the literature. In two experiments, participants were presented wi...

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Published in:Experimental psychology 2013-01, Vol.60 (3), p.172-178
Main Authors: VanArsdall, Joshua E, Nairne, James S, Pandeirada, Josefa N. S, Blunt, Janell R
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation
Animacy and Inanimacy
Associative Processes
Attention - physiology
Biological and medical sciences
Comprehension - physiology
Cues
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Learning. Memory
Male
Memory
Memory - physiology
Mental Recall - physiology
Mnemonic Learning
Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reaction Time - physiology
Retention (Psychology)
Theory of Evolution
Unaided Recall
Word Recognition
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