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Apr 9, 2013 · However, if processing information under other fitness-relevant adaptive mechanisms does not result in superior recall, then this presents a problem for theories that invoke a general appeal to fitness-relevance as an explanation for the memory benefit. The fitness-relevant explanation hinges on such a direct empirical test.
- Joshua Sandry, David Trafimow, Michael J. Marks, Stephen Rice
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0060868
- 2013
- PLoS One. 2013; 8(4): e60868.
Aug 22, 2021 · Recently, researchers have begun to explore whether these memory advantages extend to other fitness-relevant domains – described as the field of “adaptive memory” – such as those pertaining to animacy and mortality salience (Altarriba and Kazanas 2019). Additional domains, including contamination, cheater detection, and mate selection, have also been explored for their mnemonic value.
- skazanas@tntech.edu
Apr 9, 2013 · 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 ...
Nov 23, 2017 · The idea that memory reflects the selection pressures humans encountered throughout evolution has become known as “adaptive memory.” Over the past decade, empirical evidence has been accumulating for better memory performance in fitness-relevant domains, that is, situations related to survival and/or chances of reproduction.
- 10.1177/1474704917742807
- Oct-Dec 2017
Jul 30, 2022 · Other Fitness-Relevant Dimensions. Work on adaptive memory has been concerned primarily with survival processing and animacy, but other fitness-relevant mnemonic “tunings” have been explored in the laboratory.
Jan 1, 2021 · The adaptive memory framework posits that human memory is an evolved cognitive feature, in which stimuli relevant to fitness are better remembered than neutral stimuli.
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Returning to adaptive memory, the hypothesis that our memory systems are “tuned” to the processing of fitness-relevant information certainly implies domain-specificity. We suggested that “special” mnemonic advantages accrue whenever fitness-relevant processing is engaged, presumably because we evolved proximate mechanisms designed specifically to solve fitness-relevant problems.
