Newberry Kimberly M, Feller Daniel P, Bailey Heather R
Department of Psychology, Shenandoah University, 600 Millwood Ave., Halpin Harrison Hall 117, Winchester, VA, 22601, USA.
Department of Learning Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Mem Cognit. 2021 May;49(4):660-674. doi: 10.3758/s13421-020-01118-1. Epub 2021 Jan 7.
Much research has shown that experts possess superior memory in their domain of expertise. This memory benefit has been proposed to be the result of various encoding mechanisms, such as chunking and differentiation. Another potential encoding mechanism that is associated with memory is event segmentation, which is the process by which people parse continuous information into meaningful, discrete units. Previous research has found evidence that segmentation, to some extent, is affected by top-down processing. To date, few studies have investigated the influence of expertise on segmentation, and questions about expertise, segmentation ability, and their impact on memory remain. The goal of the current study was to investigate the influence of expertise on segmentation and memory ability for two different domains: basketball and Overwatch. Participants with high and low knowledge for basketball and with low knowledge for Overwatch viewed and segmented videos at coarse and fine grains, then completed memory tests. Differences in segmentation ability and memory were present between experts and control novices, specifically for the basketball videos; however, experts' segmentation only predicted memory for activities for which knowledge was lacking. Overall, this research suggests that experts' superior memory is not due to their segmentation ability and contributes to a growing body of literature showing evidence supporting conceptual effects on segmentation.
大量研究表明,专家在其专业领域拥有卓越的记忆力。这种记忆优势被认为是各种编码机制的结果,比如组块和区分。另一种与记忆相关的潜在编码机制是事件分割,即人们将连续信息解析为有意义的离散单元的过程。先前的研究发现,分割在一定程度上会受到自上而下加工的影响。迄今为止,很少有研究调查专业知识对分割的影响,关于专业知识、分割能力及其对记忆的影响仍存在疑问。本研究的目的是调查专业知识对篮球和《守望先锋》这两个不同领域的分割和记忆能力的影响。对篮球有高知识水平和低知识水平以及对《守望先锋》知识水平低的参与者,以粗粒度和细粒度观看并分割视频,然后完成记忆测试。专家和新手对照组在分割能力和记忆方面存在差异,特别是对于篮球视频;然而,专家的分割仅能预测对缺乏相关知识的活动的记忆。总体而言,这项研究表明,专家的卓越记忆力并非源于他们的分割能力,并且为越来越多表明概念对分割有影响的文献提供了证据支持。