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Bell, Raoul; Röer, Jan P.; Buchner, Axel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Rating the relevance of words for the imagined situation of being stranded in the grasslands without survival material leads to exceptionally good memory for these words. This survival processing effect has received much attention because it promises to elucidate the evolutionary foundations of memory. However, the proximate mechanisms of the…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Memory, Cognitive Processes, Adjustment (to Environment)