Adaptive memory: Survival processing enhances retention.
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Adaptive memory: survival processing enhances retention.
The authors investigated the idea that memory systems might have evolved to help us remember fitness-relevant information--specifically, information relevant to survival. In 4 incidental learning experiments, people were asked to rate common nouns for their survival relevance (e.g., in securing food, water, or protection from predators); in control conditions, the same words were rated for plea...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1939-1285,0278-7393
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.33.2.263