Memory Processes and Influences

Extending the dimensional approach to emotion, emerging evidence suggests that facial expressions displaying discrete emotions modulate cognition according to their distinct ecological signal values. However, whether these divergent signals shape source memory processes remains unanswered. Here, we investigated whethe…

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Abstract Working memory (WM) is often assumed to play a stronger role in mental operations than in pure storage. However, much of the evidence comes from tasks using novel stimuli requiring active maintenance. Everyday cognition, in contrast, often involves operating on information retrieved from long-term memory (LTM…

Evaluating the credibility of a speaker's statement requires more than assessing factual accuracy; it also involves tracking cues to the speaker's epistemic commitment to the claim. Grammatical evidentiality, which encodes information sources, may therefore shape how statements are evaluated during language comprehens…

The present study examined the association between acculturation orientations and the phenomenological and episodic characteristics of autobiographical memories of Syrian adult migrants in Türkiye. Moreover, the role of language in this association was investigated. Each participant received three instructions: recall…

Episodic memory is a type of long-term memory that encodes and retrieves personal experiences associated with their context. Previous episodic memory studies showed that the context or preexisting knowledge about retrieved information may influence the performance of memory tasks. Therefore, studying the semantic prox…

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This study provides experimental evidence suggesting that hindsight bias functions as a reconstructive mechanism that increases the endorsement of schema-consistent lures. Integrating text-memory paradigms with Signal Detection Theory (SDT), the present research tests how an event's definitive outcome restructures the…

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The present study investigates how the emotional closure status of autobiographical memories (open vs. closed) influences the frequency and phenomenology of involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs), and how these processes are further shaped by individual differences in the need for emotional closure. Participants…