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April 5, 2026Open Access

What Counts as an Environment in Memory Research? Conceptualizing Environment Across Memory Traditions

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DHDylan Chau HuynhAHAja Khalid HusseinLFLars Brorson Fich

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Overview

This review elucidates how diverse definitions of environment impact memory in different traditions, clarifying the field's structure.

Key Points

  • This review aims to clarify the different conceptualizations of environment in memory research across various traditions.
  • Organized the literature into three traditions: category-based, feature-based, and context-based accounts.
  • Examined how each tradition highlights different environmental properties and memory systems.
  • Discussed overlapping questions across traditions, linking them to memory effects.
  • Identified three roles of environment in memory: structure, navigational scaffold, and cue.
  • Category-based accounts connect environment to attention and working memory.
  • Feature-based accounts relate to navigation and spatial representation, while context-based accounts are tied to episodic encoding and retrieval.

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Huynh et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d1fba0a79560c99a0a1aechttps://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5tfwj_v1
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