Successful cuing of gender source memory does not improve location source memory

In three experiments we explored cross-dimensional cuing effects in a multidimensional source encoding and retrieval paradigm. We employed a bias-controlled experimental method of source cuing at retrieval (Starns & Hicks, 2013 ) in an attempt to improve retrieval of location information indirec...

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Published in:Memory & cognition Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 650 - 659
Main Authors: Hicks, Jason L., Starns, Jeffrey J.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York Springer US 01.05.2016
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Adult
Alliances
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Bias
Cognitive Psychology
Cues
Data mining
Decisions
Encoding
Experiments
Facial Recognition - physiology
Females
Gender
Humans
Information
Laboratories
Memory
Mental Recall - physiology
Paradigms
Psychology
Retrieval
Sex Factors
Source memory
Spatial Memory - physiology
Studies
Tests
Words
Young Adult
Stochastic dependence
Context effects
Source memory
Cuing
Recognition
ISSN:0090-502X, 1532-5946, 1532-5946
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Summary:In three experiments we explored cross-dimensional cuing effects in a multidimensional source encoding and retrieval paradigm. We employed a bias-controlled experimental method of source cuing at retrieval (Starns & Hicks, 2013 ) in an attempt to improve retrieval of location information indirectly by cuing gender information. Encoded words were situated on the left or right side of a computer monitor and associated with either a male or a female face. When multiple faces were used across the set of encoded words, reinstating the correct face at retrieval alongside an incorrect, opposite-gender face cue improved male/female source decisions for test words. However, this powerful test cue did not improve memory for the encoded location of the words, suggesting that within-dimension cuing does not produce cross-dimensional cuing. This null outcome was found when gender decisions were required (Experiments 1 A and 2 ) or not required (Experiment 1 B) prior to location decisions. Nor was cross-dimension cuing found when subjects were told to expect a source test of both gender and location information at retrieval (Experiment 2 ). Our findings reinforce prior work demonstrating that multiple context dimensions can be bound to item information without any direct binding between the contexts.
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ISSN:0090-502X
1532-5946
1532-5946
DOI:10.3758/s13421-016-0586-y