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Direct linkKostic, Bogdan; McFarlan, Chastity C.; Cleary, Anne M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012
Recent work (e.g., Nairne & Pandeirada, 2010) has shown that words are remembered better when they have been processed for their survival value in a grasslands context than when processed in other contexts. It has been suggested that this is because human memory systems were shaped by evolution specifically to help humans survive. Thus far,…
Descriptors: Memory, Evolution, Context Effect, Cognitive Processes
