Distinctiveness and Memory

by R. Reed Hunt (Editor), James B. Worthen (Editor)

Overview

Research relevant to the topic of distinctiveness and memory dates back over 100 years and boasts a literature of well over 2,000 published articles. Throughout this history, numerous theories of distinctiveness and memory have been offered and subsequently refined. There has, however, never been a book that brings this rich history together with the latest research. This volume is the first to present an historical overview, the results of the current research, and several new theories on distinctiveness and memory. Each chapter contains a review of the relevant literature and latest research on its topic. The book includes sections that cover basic theory and behavioral research on distinctiveness, bizarreness effects, distinctiveness effects on implicit memory, the development of distinctiveness across the lifespan, distinctiveness in social context, and the neuroscience of distinctiveness and memory. In the concluding chapter, Fergus Craik offers his current perspective on distinctiveness and evaluates the various other theories of distinctiveness presented in the volume. Distinctiveness and Memory will be a valuable resource for student and professional researchers in neuroscience and cognitive, developmental, and social psychology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190290863
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/06/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

R. Reed Hunt received his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico and taught at Dartmouth College, Furman University, and University of North Carolina at Greensboro, before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Much of his research has been devoted to characterizing the psychological processes that are distinctiveness in memory. James B. Worthen received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology with emphases in cognition and social cognition from Texas Tech University in 1995. Dr. Worthen has held positions at Michigan Technological University and the University of Texas at Brownsville. He now teaches and conducts research at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he also serves as the Director of the Graduate Program in Psychology.

Table of Contents

Part One: Basic Issues1. The Concept of Distinctiveness in Memory Research, R. Reed Hunt2. Modeling Distinctiveness: Implications for general memory theory, James S. Nairne3. Emotion, Significance, Distinctiveness, and Memory, Stephen R. Schmidt4. Encoding and Retrieval Processes in Distinctiveness Effects: Toward an Integrative Framework, Mark A. McDaniel and Lisa Geraci5. Reducing Memory Errors: The Distinctiveness Heuristic, Daniel L. Schacter and Amy L. Wiseman6. Assessing Distinctiveness: Measures of Item-Specific and Relational Processing, Daniel J. BurnsPart Two: Bizareness7. Resolution of Discrepant Memory Strengths: An Explanation of the Effects of Bizareness on Memory, James B. Worthen8. Memory for Bizarre and Other Unusual Events: Evidence from Script Research, Denise DavidsonPart Three: Distinctiveness and Implicit Memory Tests9. Conceptual Implicit Memory and the Item-specific—Relational Distinction, Neil W. Mulligan10. The Distinctiveness Effect in Explicit and Implicit Memory, Lisa Geraci and Suparna RajarmPart Four: Distinctiveness and Memory Across the Life Span11. Distinctiveness in Children's Memory, Mark L. Howe12. Adult Age Differences in Episodic Memory: Item-specific, Relational, and Distinctive Processing, Rebekah E. SmithPart Five: Distinctiveness in the Social Context13. The Effects of Social Distinctiveness: The Phenomenology of Being in a Group, Brian Mullen and Carmen Pizzuto14. Distinctiveness and Memory: A Comparison of the Social and Cognitive Literatures, Susan Coats and Eliot R. Smith15. Part Six: The Neuroscience of Distinctiveness and MemoryMultiple Electrophysiological Indices of Distinctiveness, Monica Fabiani16. Neural Correlates of Incongruity, Pascale Michelon and Abraham Z. Snyder17. Stimulus Novelty Effects on Recognition Memory: Behavioral Properties and Neuroanatomical Substrates, Mark M. Kishiyama and Andrew P. YonelinasPart Seven: Denoument18. What do Explanations of the Distinctiveness Effect Need to Explain?, Endel Tulving and R. Shayna Rosenbaum19. Distinctiveness and Memory: Comments and a Point of View, Fergus I.M. Craik