Adaptive memory: evaluating alternative forms of fitness-relevant processing in the survival processing paradigm.

Memory may have evolved to preserve information processed in terms of its fitness-relevance. Based on the assumption that the human mind comprises different fitness-relevant adaptive mechanisms contributing to survival and reproductive success, we compared alternative fitness-relevant processing sce...

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Autores principales:	Joshua Sandry, David Trafimow, Michael J Marks, Stephen Rice
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:cc4ad4d58a174b0c87fd4cef6709e4322021-11-18T07:50:05ZAdaptive memory: evaluating alternative forms of fitness-relevant processing in the survival processing paradigm.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0060868https://doaj.org/article/cc4ad4d58a174b0c87fd4cef6709e4322013-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23585858/pdf/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Memory may have evolved to preserve information processed in terms of its fitness-relevance. Based on the assumption that the human mind comprises different fitness-relevant adaptive mechanisms contributing to survival and reproductive success, we compared alternative fitness-relevant processing scenarios with survival processing. Participants rated words for relevancy to fitness-relevant and control conditions followed by a delay and surprise recall test (Experiment 1a). Participants recalled more words processed for their relevance to a survival situation. We replicated these findings in an online study (Experiment 2) and a study using revised fitness-relevant scenarios (Experiment 3). Across all experiments, we did not find a mnemonic benefit for alternative fitness-relevant processing scenarios, questioning assumptions associated with an evolutionary account of remembering. Based on these results, fitness-relevance seems to be too wide-ranging of a construct to account for the memory findings associated with survival processing. We propose that memory may be hierarchically sensitive to fitness-relevant processing instructions. We encourage future researchers to investigate the underlying mechanisms responsible for survival processing effects and work toward developing a taxonomy of adaptive memory.Joshua SandryDavid TrafimowMichael J MarksStephen RicePublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 4, p e60868 (2013)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Joshua Sandry David Trafimow Michael J Marks Stephen Rice Adaptive memory: evaluating alternative forms of fitness-relevant processing in the survival processing paradigm.
description	Memory may have evolved to preserve information processed in terms of its fitness-relevance. Based on the assumption that the human mind comprises different fitness-relevant adaptive mechanisms contributing to survival and reproductive success, we compared alternative fitness-relevant processing scenarios with survival processing. Participants rated words for relevancy to fitness-relevant and control conditions followed by a delay and surprise recall test (Experiment 1a). Participants recalled more words processed for their relevance to a survival situation. We replicated these findings in an online study (Experiment 2) and a study using revised fitness-relevant scenarios (Experiment 3). Across all experiments, we did not find a mnemonic benefit for alternative fitness-relevant processing scenarios, questioning assumptions associated with an evolutionary account of remembering. Based on these results, fitness-relevance seems to be too wide-ranging of a construct to account for the memory findings associated with survival processing. We propose that memory may be hierarchically sensitive to fitness-relevant processing instructions. We encourage future researchers to investigate the underlying mechanisms responsible for survival processing effects and work toward developing a taxonomy of adaptive memory.
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title	Adaptive memory: evaluating alternative forms of fitness-relevant processing in the survival processing paradigm.
title_short	Adaptive memory: evaluating alternative forms of fitness-relevant processing in the survival processing paradigm.
title_full	Adaptive memory: evaluating alternative forms of fitness-relevant processing in the survival processing paradigm.
title_fullStr	Adaptive memory: evaluating alternative forms of fitness-relevant processing in the survival processing paradigm.
title_full_unstemmed	Adaptive memory: evaluating alternative forms of fitness-relevant processing in the survival processing paradigm.
title_sort	adaptive memory: evaluating alternative forms of fitness-relevant processing in the survival processing paradigm.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2013
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Adaptive memory: evaluating alternative forms of fitness-relevant processing in the survival processing paradigm.

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