From generating to violating predictions: The effects of prediction error on episodic memory

  • Generating predictions about environmental regularities, relying on these predictions, and updating these predictions when there is a violation from incoming sensory evidence are considered crucial functions of our cognitive system for being adaptive in the future. The violation of a prediction can result in a prediction error (PE) which affects subsequent memory processing. In our preregistered studies, we examined the effects of different levels of PE on episodic memory. Participants were asked to generate predictions about the associations between sequentially presented cue-target pairs, which were violated later with individual items in three PE levels, namely low, medium, and high PE. Hereafter, participants were asked to provide old/new judgments on the items with confidence ratings, and to retrieve the paired cues. Our results indicated a better recognition memory for low PE than medium and high PE levels, suggesting a memory congruency effect. On the other hand, there was no evidence of memory benefit for high PE level. Together, these novel and coherent findings strongly suggest that high PE does not guarantee better memory.

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Author:Gözem TuranORCiDGND, Isabelle EhrlichORCiDGND, Yee Lee ShingORCiDGND, Sophie NoldenORCiD
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-855345
DOI:https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zm29a
Parent Title (German):PsyArXiv
Publisher:PsyArXiv
Document Type:Preprint
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2023/01/14
Year of first Publication:2023
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2024/06/03
Tag:episodic memory; prediction error; predictive processing
Page Number:44
HeBIS-PPN:518806596
Institutes:Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften / Psychologie
Dewey Decimal Classification:1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International