From Thought to Senses: Assessing the Presence of a Relationship Between the Generation Effect and Multisensory Facilitationuse asterix (*) to get italics

Michaela Ritchie, Jonathan WilbiksPlease use the format "First name initials family name" as in "Marie S. Curie, Niels H. D. Bohr, Albert Einstein, John R. R. Tolkien, Donna T. Strickland"

2024

<p>The proposed study will investigate the relationship between the generation effect, a memory advantage for self-generated verbal information, and the multisensory facilitation effect, a phenomenon wherein congruent sensory inputs enhance cognitive processing. Although extensive research has explored the generation effect, the multisensory aspect of this task has been overlooked. The proposed study aims to determine if the generation effect is modulated by the multisensory facilitation effect. Multisensory facilitation involves the brain's ability to efficiently process information from diverse sensory sources simultaneously, enhancing cognitive performance. The proposed study will employ a 2 (Task Type: generate, read) X 3 (Sensory Modality: auditory, visual, audiovisual) factorial design, utilizing word pair lists and cued recall tests. It is hypothesized that the multisensory facilitation effect will amplify the generation effect, particularly in the audiovisual condition. This research contributes to understanding the interplay between self-generation, multisensory processing, and memory, providing insights for cognitive mechanisms, and having implications for educational settings. The proposed study will address a gap in existing literature by examining the multisensory component of generation tasks and extends the current understanding of multisensory learning by incorporating verbal stimuli as the visual component.</p>

generation effect, multisensory facilitation effect, audiovisual learning, verbal memory, cued recall

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2024-02-01 18:34:15

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