animacy effect / effet d'animacité
Synonymes : effet animé, effet d'animéité
Group: Human, Psychology
Groupe : Homme, Psychologie
Definition: A memory phenomenon observed when memory for stimuli (e.g., words or pictures) depicting animate/living beings is better than memory for stimuli depicting inanimate/nonliving objects.
Définition : Phénomène de mémoire observé quand la mémoire de stimuli (par exemple, des mots ou des images) représentant des êtres animés/vivants est meilleure que la mémoire de stimuli représentant des objets inanimés/non-vivants.
Broader term: memory phenomenon
Terme générique : phénomène de la mémoire
Related terms: episodic memory, adaptive memory, survival processing
Termes associés : mémoire épisodique, mémoire adaptative, traitement de survie
Selected bibliography: Félix, S. B., Poirier, M., Nairne, J. S., & Pandeirada, J. N. S. (in press). The breadth of animacy in memory: New evidence from prospective memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02406-y [Study type: empirical study / Access: open], Gelin, M., Bonin, P., Méot, A., & Bugaiska, A. (2018). Do animacy effects persist in memory for context? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(4), 965–974. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2017.1307866 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Gelin, M. (2017). Mémoire adaptative et effet animé: Notre mémoire fonctionne-t’elle encore comme à l’âge de pierre? Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté. [Study type: empirical study / Access: open], Gelin, M., Bugaiska, A., Méot, A., & Bonin, P. (2017). Are animacy effects in episodic memory independent of encoding instructions? Memory, 25(1), 2–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2015.1117643 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Komar, G. F., Mieth, L., Buchner, A., & Bell, R. (2023). The animacy effect on free recall is equally large in mixed and pure word lists or pairs. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38342-z [Study type: empirical study / Access: open], Nairne, J. S., VanArsdall, J. E., & Cogdill, M. (2017). Remembering the living: Episodic memory is tuned to animacy. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26(1), 22–27. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721416667711 [Study type: literature review / Access: free], Nairne, J. S., VanArsdall, J. E., Pandeirada, J. N. S., Cogdill, M., & LeBreton, J. M. (2013). Adaptive memory: The mnemonic value of animacy. Psychological Science, 24(10), 2099-2105. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797613480803 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], VanArsdall, J. E., Nairne, J. S., Pandeirada, J. N. S., & Blunt, J. R. (2013). Adaptive memory: Animacy processing produces mnemonic advantages. Experimental Psychology, 60(3), 172-178. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000186 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
Dataset citations: Félix, S. B., Poirier, M., Nairne, J. S., & Pandeirada, J. N. S. (2023, October 26). The Breadth of Animacy in Memory: New Evidence from Prospective Memory. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/G6UQT, Komar, G. F., Mieth, L., Buchner, A., & Bell, R. (2023, June 1). The animacy effect on free recall is equally large in mixed and pure word lists or pairs. https://osf.io/x4am5, Meinhardt, M., Bell, R., Buchner, A., & Röer, J. P. (2019, May 3). Adaptive memory: Is the animacy effect on memory due to richness of encoding? https://osf.io/c2a68, Mieth, L., Röer, J. P., Buchner, A., & Bell, R. (2019, July 1). Adaptive memory:   Enhanced source memory for animate entities. https://osf.io/axtjm, VanArsdall, J., & Blunt, J. (2021, March 19). Method of Loci and Animacy. https://osf.io/qj8pb