Trial reportPloS one2015
Delineating the effect of semantic congruency on episodic memory: the role of integration and relatedness.
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38 citing papers in PubMed.
- Explaining away the impossible: Effects of plausibility on predictive sentence processing and memory.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- Dissociable effects of schema congruency on item recognition and source memory across levels of expectedness and surprise.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- Differential effects of contextual congruency on recognition and retrieval of perceptual details.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- The role of stimulus characteristics in visual attention: an eye-tracking study.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Binding items to contexts through conjunctive neural representations with the method of loci.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Encoding of semantic structure shapes temporal order memory for visual object stimuli.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Expectation-[in]congruence differentially impacts recall and recognition of object features.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- Rich autobiographical memory benefits from both novelty and similarity to other daily experiences.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A Toaster in the Bathroom: Neural Correlates of Semantic Construction During Episodic Memory Recall.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Rich autobiographical memory recall benefits from both novelty and similarity to other daily experiences.Research square · 2025Article
- Cortico-hippocampal interactions underlie schema-supported memory encoding in older adults.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
- Crossmodal semantic congruence and rarity improve episodic memory.Memory & cognition · 2025Article
- Schemas, reinforcement learning and the medial prefrontal cortex.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Accurate Predictions Facilitate Robust Memory Encoding Independently From Stimulus Probability.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2025Article
- When personality meets surprise: individual differences in memory for unexpected events.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Semantic relatedness proactively benefits learning, memory, and interdependence across episodes.eLife · 2024Article
- From silos to synergy: Integrating approaches to investigate the role of prior knowledge and expectations on episodic memory.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Review
- Integrating and fragmenting memories under stress and alcohol.Neurobiology of stress · 2024Article
- Harmonic memory signals in the human cerebral cortex induced by semantic relatedness of words.NPJ science of learning · 2024Article
- Predictions transform memories: How expected versus unexpected events are integrated or separated in memory.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2023Review
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Abstract
A fundamental challenge in the study of learning and memory is to understand the role of existing knowledge in the encoding and retrieval of new episodic information. The importance of prior knowledge in memory is demonstrated in the congruency effect-the robust finding wherein participants display better memory for items that are compatible, rather than incompatible, with their pre-existing semantic knowledge. Despite its robustness, the mechanism underlying this effect is not well understood. In four studies, we provide evidence that demonstrates the privileged explanatory power of the elaboration-integration account over alternative hypotheses. Furthermore, we question the implicit assumption that the congruency effect pertains to the truthfulness/sensibility of a subject-predicate proposition, and show that congruency is a function of semantic relatedness between item and context words.
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