Environmental context-dependent memory: A review and meta-analysis

By Steven M. Smith, E. Vela. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Erik W. Moody
2. J. V. van Merriënboer
3. Günter Daniel Rey
4. Jane S. Herbert
5. Brett K. Hayes
6. Edward G. Jones
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4. Günter Daniel Rey
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6. Steve Nebel
7. Erik W. Moody
8. Jane S. Herbert

Citations in the corpus

• Effects of the Physical Environment on Cognitive Load and Learning: Towards a New Model of Cognitive Load (2014, background): “…learning environment on cognition can also be regarded from a context-dependent memory perspective, which generally refers to the finding of better memory performance when the (physical) learning and test environment are similar than when they differ (for a review; see S. M. Smith and Vela 2001).”
• Decorative pictures and emotional design in multimedia learning (2016, result): “…phase of knowledge acquisition might be helpful for those receiving pictures with the same context (learning context) as participants of this study have to learn in a similar situation as those on the university context pictures according to studies on context-dependent memory (Smith & Vela, 2001).”
• Across the Event Horizon (2012, background): “To some, this finding may seem like a demonstration of context-dependent memory (e.g., Smith & Vela, 2001)—difficulty remembering information when the context at retrieval does not match the context at encoding.”
• Can encoding differences explain the benefits of directed forgetting in the list-method paradigm? (2003, positive): “A recently conducted meta-analysis of context-dependent memory studies revealed that the type of encoding task at input is a significant modulator of the magnitude of the context effects for direct tests of memory such as recall (Smith & Vela, 2001).”
• Exploring memory in infancy: deferred imitation and the development of declarative memory (2006, background): “…a recent review of the adult literature on the effects of environmental context change concluded that environmental-contextdependent memory effects were less likely to occur when the immediate environment was suppressed by encouraging deeper processing of the focal cue (Smith and Vela, 2001).”
• Memory processes in classical conditioning. (2004, background): “In a recent meta-analysis, Smith and Vela [70] found overall evidence of such context-dependent memory, but suggested that it is sometimes difficult to find owing to a number of other processes that can help support recall at the time of the test.”
• Memory, reasoning, and categorization: parallels and common mechanisms (2014, background): “Frontiers in Psychology | Cognitive Science June 2014 | Volume 5 | Article 529 | 4 A common finding in recognition memory research is that discrimination between old and new items is affected by such contextual manipulations (see Smith and Vela, 2001 for a review).”