An empirical search for a comprehensive principle explaining context-dependent recognition induced by various kinds of environmental information

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380979
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Experimental psychology
• Research Institution: Shizuoka University
• Principal Investigator: Isarida Takeo 静岡大学, 情報学部, 教授 (30116529)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): ISARIDA TOSHIKO 静岡県立大学, 短期大学部, 教授 (40161567)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: エピソード記憶 / 再認 / 文脈依存効果 / 環境的文脈

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The results of environmental context-dependent recognition have been ambiguous. We demonstrated that the ambiguity was resolved by the episodic remembering account (the encoding specificity and the outshining principles). The present study investigated the context-dependent recognition for environmental contexts other than place context: background-music, odor, visual, and video contexts. Broadly speaking, global contexts (place, background-music, odor, and repetitively presented video contexts) can be well explained by the episodic remembering account, whereas local contexts (various visual contexts and video contexts changing one-by-one) can be well explained by the ICE theory. Further issues are (1) investigations of global context-dependent recognition are not sufficient, and (2) demonstrations of the ICE theory are often biased.

Free Research Field

社会科学