ArticlePsychonomic bulletin & review2024
Episodic-semantic linkage for $1000: New semantic knowledge is more strongly coupled with episodic memory in trivia experts.
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- Binding items to contexts through conjunctive neural representations with the method of loci.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Attempts to investigate what words trivia experts focus on in quiz questions: Human-AI comparison through "LLM-as-a-judge" approach.PloS one · 2026Article
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Abstract
Some people exhibit impressive memory for a wide array of semantic knowledge. What makes these trivia experts better able to learn and retain novel facts? We hypothesized that new semantic knowledge may be more strongly linked to its episodic context in trivia experts. We designed a novel online task in which 132 participants varying in trivia expertise encoded "exhibits" of naturalistic facts with related photos in one of two "museums." Afterward, participants were tested on cued recall of facts and recognition of the associated photo and museum. Greater trivia expertise predicted higher cued recall for novel facts. Critically, trivia experts but not non-experts showed superior fact recall when they remembered both features (photo and museum) of the encoding context. These findings illustrate enhanced links between episodic memory and new semantic learning in trivia experts, and show the value of studying trivia experts as a special population that can shed light on the mechanisms of memory.
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