INTEREST AND MEMORY

"Interest and learning consolidation: Behavioural, neurological, and metacognitive analyses"

Coordinatore	THE UNIVERSITY OF READING    more  Organization address address: WHITEKNIGHTS CAMPUS WHITEKNIGHTS HOUSE city: READING postcode: RG6 6AH contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Alison Cognome: Merrett Email: send email Telefono: +44 1183786160
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	100˙000 €
EC contributo	100˙000 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG
Funding Scheme	MC-CIG
Anno di inizio	2014
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2014-05-01   -   2018-04-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	THE UNIVERSITY OF READING  Organization address address: WHITEKNIGHTS CAMPUS WHITEKNIGHTS HOUSE city: READING postcode: RG6 6AH contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Alison Cognome: Merrett Email: send email Telefono: +44 1183786160	UK (READING)	coordinator	100˙000.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Interest is a critical motivational factor in education, and a vast number of empirical studies in psychology have revealed the beneficial effects of interest on learning outcomes. Despite the many different theoretical perspectives on interest, however, previous studies hold a common assumption that interest promotes learning by increasing positive motivational commitment to a task (i.e., motivational benefit of interest). Going beyond this assumption, the current project points to the possibility that there is another hidden, non-motivational benefit of interest on learning, and proposes the novel hypothesis that interest can directly consolidate learning without being mediated by any motivational or attentional processes. The proposal will examine this direct consolidation hypothesis of interest using a multidisciplinary approach, combining behavioural, neurological, and metacognitive perspectives. Study 1 will behaviourally test the direct consolidation hypothesis using a new methodology: post-encoding motivation manipulation. I expect that interesting events will enhance long-term learning, even for the interest-irrelevant materials that are presented prior to the interesting event. Study 2 will use functional magnetic resonance imaging to test the hypothesis that the non-motivational effect of interest on learning is produced by the direct modulation of striatal reward system in the hippocampal memory system. Study 3 will examine the metacognitive consequences of the direct consolidation of interest. Specifically, I will investigate the possibility that the unawareness of the non-motivational benefit of interest will produce underconfidence (as opposed to the overconfidence that past literature has commonly observed) and, therefore, maladaptive self-regulated study of interesting materials. These findings will not only open a new avenue for future research on interest, but also suggest practical implications for educational programs to promote interest.'