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Adaptive memory. Adaptive memory is the study of memory systems that have evolved to help retain survival- and fitness-related information, i.e., that are geared toward helping an organism enhance its reproductive fitness and chances of surviving. [1] One key element of adaptive memory research is the notion that memory evolved to help survival ...
Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online. Clearly, our memory plays a decisive role in our daily life. It gives us striking abilities that allow us both to recollect the past and predict the future. For example, our memory allows us to think back about past episodes, such as witnessing a crime, but also to mentally plan prospective contingencies ...
Jul 29, 2016 · A few seconds of survival processing, during which people assess the relevance of information to a survival situation, produces particularly good retention. One...
- James S. Nairne, Josefa N. S. Pandeirada
- 2016
Aug 22, 2021 · The adaptive memory literature describes a memory benefit for information processed for its fitness value. Early iterations of this finding, first reported by Nairne, Thompson, and Pandeirada (), showed participants’ incidental recall was greatest after they had rated a set of words according to how well they would assist them “find[ing] steady supplies of food and water and protect[ing ...
- skazanas@tntech.edu
Nov 7, 2013 · The goal of this volume will be to present the best theoretical and empirical work on the adaptive nature of memory. It features the most current work of a number of cognitive psychologists, developmental psychologists, comparative psychologists, and cognitive neuroscientists who have focused on this issue.
Research on adaptive memory originated from the claim that our memory systems are functionally specialized to solve adaptive, or fitness-based, problems. Included are problems such as remembering sources of nourishment, threats to survival, activities of kin, potential mating partners, cheaters and free-riders, and so on ( Nairne & Pandeirada, 2008 ).
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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. There is now substantial evidence that processing a neutral stimulus in terms of its ...
