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Re-examining the Underlying Mechanisms of the Hebb Repetition Effect

Research Project

Project/Area Number 20J20750
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section国内
Review Section Basic Section 09010:Education-related
Research InstitutionKyoto University

Principal Investigator

ARAYA OROZCO CLAUDIA (2020-2021)  京都大学, 教育学研究科, 特別研究員(DC1)

Research Fellow ARAYA OROZCO CLAUDIA (2022)  京都大学, 教育学研究科, 特別研究員(DC1)
Project Period (FY) 2020-04-24 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
KeywordsScientific article / Experiments / Conference / Oral presentation
Outline of Research at the Start

The Hebb repetition effect (HRE) on a memory task refers to the improvement in the accuracy of recall of a repeated list over random non-repeated lists. Previous research found that the HRE occurs in complex span tasks, we will focus on investigating the necessary conditions for the HRE to occur.

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

I conducted three new experiments to gather more concrete evidence on the mechanism underlying the Hebb repetition effect in complex span tasks. The objectives were as follows: a.To directly evaluate the position-item association as the mechanism underlying the Hebb repetition effect in complex span tasks by creating a partial Hebb repetition complex span task; b.To confirm our previous results by testing whether the Hebb repetition effect can be transferred from a simple span task to a complex span task; c.Our previous results suggest that the mechanism underlying the Hebb repetition effect in simple and complex span tasks might be the same. Given that, my last experiment aimed to better understand the processing of distractor stimuli in a Hebb repetition complex span task. The results suggest that distractors do not affect learning by Hebb repetition, the mechanism in both simple and complex span tasks seems to be the same. Distractors are perhaps being removed from Working memory.

The results were presented at the European Society for Cognitive Psychology meeting and published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
I finished and succesfully defended my doctoral thesis at the end of 2023.

Research Progress Status

令和4年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。

Strategy for Future Research Activity

令和4年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。

Report

(3 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report
  • 2021 Annual Research Report
  • 2020 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 1 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results)

  • [Journal Article] Hebb repetition effects in complex and simple span tasks are based on the same learning mechanism.2024

    • Author(s)
      Araya, C., Oberauer, K., & Saito, S.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

      Volume: 50 Issue: 5 Pages: 759-774

    • DOI

      10.1037/xlm0001290

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] The Hebb repetition effect in complex span tasks: Evidence for a shared learning mechanism with simple span tasks2022

    • Author(s)
      Claudia Araya, Klaus Oberauer, Satoru Saito
    • Journal Title

      Memory & Cognition

      Volume: 50 Issue: 5 Pages: 925-940

    • DOI

      10.3758/s13421-021-01261-3

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report 2021 Annual Research Report 2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Distractor processing has no impact on the Hebb repetition effect in Complex span tasks2023

    • Author(s)
      Claudia Araya, Klaus Oberauer, Satoru Saito
    • Organizer
      23rd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Hebb repetition effects are transferable between simple and complex span tasks2022

    • Author(s)
      Claudia Araya, Klaus Oberauer, Satoru Saito
    • Organizer
      63rd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] TESTING THE GENERALIZABILITY OF THE HEBB REPETITION EFFECT IN COMPLEX SPAN TASKS: AN ONLINE REPLICATION STUDY2021

    • Author(s)
      Claudia Araya, Klaus Oberauer, Satoru Saito
    • Organizer
      Japanese Society for Working Memory 18th annual meeting
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Testing the generalizability of the Hebb repetition effect in complex span tasks: An online replication study2021

    • Author(s)
      Claudia Araya, Klaus Oberauer, Satoru Saito
    • Organizer
      第18回日本ワーキングメモリ学会大会
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] The Hebb repetition effect in complex span tasks: Evidence towards the position-item association s its underlying mechanism2020

    • Author(s)
      Claudia Araya, Klaus Oberauer, Satoru Saito
    • Organizer
      10th European Working Memory Symposium
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2020-07-07   Modified: 2024-12-25  

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