{"pk":28554,"title":"Navigating the “chain of command”: Enhanced integrative encoding throughactive control of study","subtitle":null,"abstract":"A growing body of research indicates that “active learning” im-proves episodic memory for material experienced during study.It is less clear how active learning impacts the integration ofthose experiences into flexible, generalizable knowledge. Thisstudy used a novel active transitive inference task to investi-gate how people learn a relational hierarchy through activeselection of premise pairs. Active control improved memoryfor studied premises as well as transitive inferences involv-ing items that were never experienced together during study.Active learners also exhibited a systematic search preference,generating sequences of overlapping premises that may fa-cilitate relational integration. Critically, however, advantagesfrom active control were not universal: Only participants withhigher working memory capacity benefited from the opportu-nity to select premise pairs during learning. These findingssuggest that active control enhances integrative encoding ofstudied material, but only among individuals with sufficientcognitive resources.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"active learning; transitive inference; informationsearch; integrative encoding"}],"section":"Papers with Oral Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6d67f65v","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Douglas","middle_name":"B.","last_name":"Markant","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of North Carolina at Charlotte","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28554/galley/18425/download/"}]}