The animacy (bias) effect in recognition: testing the influence of intentionality of learning and retrieval quality.

The animacy effect, a memory advantage for animate/living over inanimate/non-living items, is well-documented in free recall, but unclear in recognition memory. This might relate to the encoding tasks that have been used and/or to an unequal influence of animacy on the processes underlying recognition (recollection or familiarity). This study reports a recognition memory experiment, coupled with a remember/know procedure.

The breadth of animacy in memory: New evidence from prospective memory.

Studies using retrospective memory tasks have revealed that animates/living beings are better remembered than are inanimates/nonliving things (the animacy effect). However, considering that memory is foremost future oriented, we hypothesized that the animacy effect would also occur in prospective memory (i.e.

Is "earth" an animate thing? Cross-language and inter-age analyses of animacy word ratings in European Portuguese and British English young and older adults.

Animacy plays an important role in cognition (e.g., memory and language).

Personalized Cognitive Stimulation through Personhood: A Case Report on Dementia Diagnosis Acceptance and Therapeutic Engagement.

: Dementia related cognitive impairment, as forgetting recent memories, brings several emotional challenges to patients and their families. This paper reports a case of a non-collaborative high-education level patient. who recurrently refused a set of conventional cognitive stimulation exercises, as he also was in refusal of his cognitive impairment.