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Environmental Context Dependent Memory. ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT-DEPENDENT MEMORY 205 iseyewitnessmemorywhichmayormaynotbeenhanced byreturningtheeyewitnesstothesceneofthewitnessed eventsMemoryinclinicaltherapyisanotherapplication area that could be affected by incidental. In the classroom and at the bedside In medical education the context if conceived as physical surroundings does not seem to contribute to a same-context advantage. You are currently offline. The environmental context is encoded with the focal information into an episodic-memory trace and is used as a retrieval cue at the time of remembering.
So for example if a soldier had a traumatic experience in a jungle setting those memories may be very vivid whenever theyre in that type of natural setting. The ICE model account eg Murnane. In a free recall experiment divers learnt lists of words in two natural environments. We conclude that environmental context-dependent memory effects are less likely to occur under conditions in which the immediate environment is likely to be suppressed. This suppression of the immediate environment may be intentional such as when subjects avert their gaze or even close their eyes when trying to facilitate conceptual taught by disengagement from processing. Context-dependent extinction is a process of disconnecting the memory from the environmental cues.
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Lists learnt underwater were best recalled underwater and vice versa. - Although life is continually played out within physical contexts the degree of ones experience of involvement with such environments varies considerably. To address questions about human memorys dependence on the coincidental environmental contexts in which events occur we review studies of incidenta. Based on this result we should expect better memory for set 1 when recall is performed in the same test environment. Environmental context dependency is one of the most important characteristics of episodic memory. You are currently offline.