Journal article
Agency enhances temporal order memory in an interactive exploration game
Psychonomic bulletin & review, v 29(6), pp 2219-2228
01 Dec 2022
PMID: 35869412
Abstract
Agency has been shown to facilitate episodic memory. However, most paradigms use simple list-learning tasks, which preclude the ability to characterize more associative forms of memory, such as binding of items into spatial and temporal context. Across two studies, we characterize the role of agency on associative memory formation. We delineate agentive from passive memory encoding by allowing agency participants to play an online text-based game meant to simulate free exploration of objects in different rooms and yoking each passive participant's trajectory to an agentive participant, thus equating their exposure to the stimuli. To assess memory differences, we gathered three measures: item descriptions, spatial location, and temporal order. While memory for spatial location and item features did not differ between groups, there was a marked enhancement of temporal order memory in the agentive group across two independent samples. These findings support a model of self-directed learning, in which agency facilitates the binding of items into a temporal context, which allows for the sequential binding of information into continuous narratives.
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- Title
- Agency enhances temporal order memory in an interactive exploration game
- Creators
- Troy M. Houser - University of OregonAlexa Tompary - University of PennsylvaniaVishnu P. Murty - Temple University
- Publication Details
- Psychonomic bulletin & review, v 29(6), pp 2219-2228
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Number of pages
- 10
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000828943900001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85134638550
- Other Identifier
- 991021448031504721
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- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Psychology, Experimental
- Psychology, Mathematical