APS

30th APS Annual Convention · 2018

The Causal Chain of Events in Narrative Passages Enhances Free-Recall for Consistent Information More so Than for Functional Information. This Pattern Reverses with Time.

San Francisco, CA · May 2018

Poster · Cognitive

  • Robert Hines
    University of Arkansas, Little Rock

Abstract

The presence of the causal chain in a narrative plays an immediate role in fortifying the reader’s representation and memory in the presence of non-functional information. The causal chain plays a later role in fortifying the reader’s presentation and memory in the presence of inconsistent information.

Memory

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