Distinctiveness and memory [[electronic resource] /] / edited by R. Reed Hunt, James B. Worthen

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (491 p.)
• Disciplina: 153.1/2
• Soggetto topico: Memory
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: HuntR. Reed WorthenJames B
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: The concept of distinctiveness in memory research / R. Reed Hunt -- Modeling distinctiveness : implications for general memory theory / James S. Nairne -- Emotion, significance, distinctiveness, and memory / Stephen R. Schmidt -- Encoding and retrieval processes in distinctiveness effects : toward an integrative framework / Mark A. McDaniel and Lisa Geraci -- Reducing memory errors : the distinctiveness heuristic / Daniel L. Schacter and Amy L. Wiseman -- Assessing distinctiveness : measures of item-specific and relational processing / Daniel J. Burns -- Resolution of discrepant memory strengths : an explanation of the effects of bizarreness on memory / James B. Worthen -- Memory for bizarre and other unusual events : evidence from script research / Denise Davidson -- Conceptual implicit memory and the item-specific relational distinction / Neil W. Mulligan -- The distinctiveness effect in explicit and implicit memory / Lisa Geraci and Suparna Rajaram -- Distinctiveness effects in children's memory / Mark L. Howe -- Adult age differences in episodic memory : item-specific, relational, and distinctive processing / Rebekah E. Smith -- The effects of social distinctiveness : the phenomenology of being in a group / Brian Mullen and Carmen Pizzuto -- Distinctiveness and memory : a comparison of the social and cognitive literatures / Susan Coats and Eliot R. Smith -- Multiple electrophysiological indices of distinctiveness / Monica Fabiani -- Neural correlates of incongruity / Pascale Michelon and Abraham Z. Snyder -- Stimulus novelty effects on recognition memory : behavioral properties and neuroanantomical [sic] substrates / Mark M. Kishiyama and Andrew P. Yonelinas -- What do explanations of the distinctivenenss effect need to explain? / Endel Tulving and R. Shayna Rosenbaum -- Distinctiveness and memory : comments and a point of view / Fergus I.M. Craik.
• Sommario/riassunto: The basic laboratory technique for studying distinctiveness effect in memory is the isolation paradigm, a simple test in which a list of items is presented for memorisation. All items except one are similar in some way. The different item always occurs late in the list, to allow the similarity of the preceding items to establish a context. Subsequent memory for the different item is always better than for the similar items. In 1948, Jenkins and Postman offered the intuitive-differential attention explanation to account for this difference in memory, that an item is remembered because it catche
• Titolo autorizzato: Distinctiveness and memory
• ISBN: 1-4294-2041-3; 0-19-534697-1; 1-280-84096-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465146103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II