State-dependent learning

State-dependent learning

State-dependent learning is an idea of learning and recalling that is based upon the physiological and mental state of the organism.

Factors affecting state-dependent learning may include: environment, intoxication, emotional state, and sensory modality.

For example, people in a drunken state remember events when they were drunk, but they cannot remember when they are sober.

In neuropsychopharmacology, State-dependent learning denotes the fact that information that has been learned while the animal is under the influence of a certain drug (“state”) can only be recalled and used to solve a task when the animal is in the same state in which the information was learned, but not in a different, i.e., undrugged state (Colpaert, 1990 [http://www.springerlink.com/content/p117614312310g03/] and Carlezone et al., 1995 ). (definition quoted from [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejphar.2004.06.041] )

A recently identified type of context-dependent learning is the effect of language. Research by Marian et al (2007) [Marian, V. & Kaushanskaya, M. (2007). Language context guides memory content. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 14(5), 925-933. ] demonstrated that participants were more likely to identify an English answer to a question when asked in English and a Mandarin answer to a question when asked in Mandarin. This illustrates that the linguistic context of a memory may be encoded during learning.

ee also

* Cue-dependent forgetting
* Learning
* Forgetting

References

External links

* http://www.airlinesafety.com/editorials/PilotsAndMemory.htm
* http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2405/is_1_130/ai_98709929
* http://www.memorylossonline.com/glossary/statedependentmemory.html


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