The Incidental Self-Reference Effect in Patients with Schizophrenia

Live Poster Session: https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/6541715127 Abstract: The self-reference effect (SRE) refers to a memory advantage arising from relating to-be-learned information to the self at encoding. There are two types of SREs: The evaluate SRE occurs when a task explicitly requires individuals to evaluate information in relation to themselves, while the incidental SRE occurs when a self-referential … Read more

The Locus of the Effects of Psychological Distance on Memory Specificity: Encoding or Retrieval?

Live Poster Session: https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/98379758494 Abstract: Psychological distance refers to the degree to which a stimulus is removed from one’s immediate, direct experience. In our previous study, we found that psychological distance, when manipulated at encoding, influences memory specificity by producing a verbatim vs. gist memory advantage for psychologically proximal vs. distal stimuli, respectively. An important … Read more

The Relationship between Self-Related Advantages in Memory and Attention

Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: Presenting an item with self-relevant vs. other-relevant information can produce a memory advantage, even in the absence of a task demand to evaluate the item’s self-relevancy. Termed the incidental self-reference effect (iSRE), this self-memory advantage has been assumed to arise due to automatic/preferential attention to self-relevant vs. other-relevant information. Yet, this assumption has not been empirically … Read more