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Sheldon, Signy, Peters, Sarah and Renoult, Louis 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7861-0552
(2020)
Altering access to autobiographical episodes with prior semantic knowledge.
Consciousness and Cognition, 86.
ISSN 1053-8100
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Abstract
Within autobiographical knowledge, semantic and episodic memory are traditionally considered separate, but newer models place them along a continuum, which raises the possibility of an intermediate form of knowledge - personal semantics. This study tested how different types of semantics – general semantics and two forms of personal semantics – impact access to personal episodic memories. In two experiments, participants made a series of true/false judgments about a prime statement, which reflected a general semantic fact, a context-dependent (e.g., repeated event) or context-independent (e.g., trait), personal semantic fact and then retrieved a specific past episodic memory. There was a significantly stronger priming effect for accessing specific episodic memories after judging personal semantic facts versus general facts. We also found that context-dependent and -independent personal semantic facts had separable priming effects on episodic memory. These findings support a continuum model of memory and verifies that there are multiple forms of personal knowledge.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Nov 2020 00:50 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 07:29 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/77789 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.concog.2020.103039 |
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