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Publication of Research Paper Letter

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Please find included our manuscript “Schematic information influences memory and generalisation behaviour for schema-relevant and -irrelevant information”, which we believe will be of great interest to the readers of Cognition. Though schemas have been studied extensively, the focus is often on how they modulate behaviour for congruent and incongruent information. However, little is known about how they modulate behaviour for schema-irrelevant information. Here we ask, for the first time, whether the presence of schematic information may bias behaviour for schema-irrelevant information. For instance, does a schema representing objects and their locations within an office influence how you remember or infer the location of objects in another room? Given many theories ignore how schemas influence irrelevant information and many studies have used schema-irrelevant conditions as controls, it is important to understand how the presence of a schema may influence behaviour for irrelevant items. One would propose that if information is irrelevant to a schema, then the schema should not impact or influence the behaviour towards this information; this is an implicit notion across many studies (e. g. , Greve et al. , 2019; Frank et al. , 2019) and theories of schema (e. g. , van Kesteren et al. , 2012). Here we used the precision long-term memory paradigm (e. g. , Berens et al. , 2020; Harlow & Donaldson, 2013; Tompary et al. , 2020) to study how people remember the location of items around a circle and generalise to novel instances. We asked whether the presence of a pattern (or schema) in one condition (the clustered condition) influenced the memory and generalisation behaviour of participants for a condition that was irrelevant to the pattern (the non-clustered condition). By using the precision paradigm, we were able to assess the distribution of locations selected by participants for both clustered and non-clustered items and assess directly how a schematic representation may impact responding to schema-irrelevant information. Across four experiments, and an analysis of secondary data, we provide clear evidence that the presence of a pattern influences behaviour towards schema-irrelevant information. According to these results, experiments that use schema-irrelevant control conditions may need to be careful with making strong claims that the presence of a schema enhances memory for congruent or incongruent information. An alternative explanation for schema enhancement when using such controls, based on the present findings, is that the schema biases (i. e. , reduces memory for) schema-irrelevant information, thus making it seem that congruency benefited recall. Further, theories regarding how schemas influence memory and generalisation behaviour have yet to touch upon how they influence schema-irrelevant information. The present set of results call into question the implicit notion that information irrelevant to the schema is unimpacted when remembering or generalising to novel instances. Instead, items within the schema-irrelevant condition were biased away from the area of the circle where the pattern was presented. We look forward to hearing from you and thank you in advance for your consideration.
Please
find included our manuscript “Schematic
information
influences
memory
and
generalisation
behaviour
for schema-relevant and
-irrelevant
information”
, which we believe will be of great interest to the readers of Cognition. Though schemas have
been studied
extensively
, the focus is
often
on how they modulate
behaviour
for congruent and incongruent
information
.
However
,
little
is known
about how they modulate
behaviour
for schema-irrelevant
information
. Here we ask, for the
first
time, whether the
presence
of schematic
information
may bias
behaviour
for schema-irrelevant
information
.
For instance
, does a schema representing objects and their
locations
within an office
influence
how you remember or infer the
location
of objects in another room?
Given
many
theories
ignore
how schemas
influence
irrelevant
information
and
many
studies have
used
schema-irrelevant conditions as controls, it is
important
to understand how the
presence
of a schema may
influence
behaviour
for
irrelevant
items.

One would propose that if
information
is
irrelevant
to a schema, then the schema should not impact or
influence
the
behaviour
towards this
information
; this is an implicit notion across
many
studies (
e. g.
,
Greve
et al.
,
2019; Frank et al.
,
2019) and theories of schema (
e. g.
,
van
Kesteren
et al.
,
2012). Here we
used
the precision long-term
memory
paradigm (
e. g.
,
Berens
et al.
,
2020; Harlow & Donaldson, 2013;
Tompary
et al.
,
2020) to study how
people
remember the
location
of items around a circle and
generalise
to novel instances. We asked whether the
presence
of a
pattern
(or schema) in one
condition
(the clustered
condition)
influenced the
memory
and
generalisation
behaviour
of participants for a
condition
that was
irrelevant
to the
pattern
(the non-clustered
condition)
. By using the precision paradigm, we were able to assess the distribution of
locations
selected by participants for both clustered and non-clustered items and assess
directly
how a schematic representation may impact responding to schema-irrelevant information.

Across four experiments, and an analysis of secondary data, we provide
clear
evidence that the
presence
of a
pattern
influences
behaviour
towards schema-irrelevant
information
. According to these results, experiments that
use
schema-irrelevant control conditions may need to be careful with making strong claims that the
presence
of a schema enhances
memory
for congruent or incongruent
information
. An alternative explanation for schema enhancement when using such controls, based on the present findings, is that the schema biases (
i. e.
,
reduces
memory
for) schema-irrelevant
information
,
thus
making it seem that
congruency
benefited recall.
Further
, theories regarding how schemas
influence
memory
and
generalisation
behaviour
have
yet
to touch upon how they
influence
schema-irrelevant
information
. The present set of results call into question the implicit notion that
information
irrelevant
to the schema is
unimpacted
when remembering or
generalising
to novel instances.
Instead
, items within the schema-irrelevant
condition
were biased
away from the area of the circle where the
pattern
was presented
.

We look forward to hearing from you and thank you in advance for your consideration.

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