{"pk":28883,"title":"It’s Alive! Animate Sources Produce Mnemonic Benefits","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The mnemonic benefits of animate (e.g., Tiger) over inanimate\n(e.g., Table) stimuli have been demonstrated across several\ndifferent memory paradigms. Given the ubiquity of inanimate,\ncomputer-generated voices we investigated if the animacy of a\npresentation source confers mnemonic benefits. We asked: is\ninformation delivered by a human voice better remembered\nthan information presented by a computer-generated voice?\nWord-lists were presented auditorily by either a human or a\ncomputer-generated voice and memory was measured using a\nfree recall assessment. In Experiment 1, words presented in a\nhuman voice were better remembered than words presented in\na computer voice. Experiment 2 demonstrated that beliefs\nabout the animacy of a computer-generated voice were not\nsufficient for any benefits to accrue, suggesting a possible\nboundary condition for the effect. Both experiments replicated\nthe mnemonic benefits of animate words and demonstrated\nfurther extensions of the effect to spoken word presentation.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Animacy; Recall; Memory"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4g36q3d7","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sean","middle_name":"","last_name":"Snoddy","name_suffix":"","institution":"Binghamton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Daniel","middle_name":"C.","last_name":"Silliman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Binghamton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Joseph","middle_name":"C.","last_name":"Wilson","name_suffix":"","institution":"Binghamton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Kenneth","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"Houghton","name_suffix":"","institution":"Binghamton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Deanne","middle_name":"L.","last_name":"Westerman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Binghamton University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T12:00:00-06:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28883/galley/18754/download/"}]}