The Misremembrance of Wines Past: Verbal and Perceptual Expertise Differentially Mediate Verbal Overshadowing of Taste Memory Export

@article{citeulike:3116214, abstract = {When participants generate a detailed, memory-based description of complex nonverbal stimuli (e.g., faces) their recognition performance can be worse than nondescribing controls. This effect, termed verbal overshadowing, has been hypothesized to occur in situations in which domain-specific perceptual expertise exceeds verbal expertise. The present study explored this hypothesis by examining the impact of verbalization on the wine recognition of individuals of three categories of wine tasting expertise: Non-wine drinkers, untrained wine drinkers, and trained wine experts. Participants tasted a red wine, engaged in either verbalization or an unrelated verbal activity, and then attempted to identify the target wine from among three foils. As predicted, only the untrained wine drinkers showed impaired wine recognition following verbalization. The results are explained in terms of the differential development of perceptual and verbal skills in the course of becoming an expert.}, author = {Melcher, J.}, citeulike-article-id = {3116214}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jmla.1996.0013}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0749-596X(96)90013-3}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WK4-45MG3M1-1D/2/2be94e11de0ba6f851f1216f13922b5c}, doi = {10.1006/jmla.1996.0013}, issn = {0749596X}, journal = {Journal of Memory and Language}, keywords = {general}, month = {April}, number = {2}, pages = {231--245}, posted-at = {2009-10-05 22:06:04}, priority = {0}, title = {The Misremembrance of Wines Past: Verbal and Perceptual Expertise Differentially Mediate Verbal Overshadowing of Taste Memory}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jmla.1996.0013}, volume = {35}, year = {1996} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3116214 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3116214 N2 - When participants generate a detailed, memory-based description of complex nonverbal stimuli (e.g., faces) their recognition performance can be worse than nondescribing controls. This effect, termed verbal overshadowing, has been hypothesized to occur in situations in which domain-specific perceptual expertise exceeds verbal expertise. The present study explored this hypothesis by examining the impact of verbalization on the wine recognition of individuals of three categories of wine tasting expertise: Non-wine drinkers, untrained wine drinkers, and trained wine experts. Participants tasted a red wine, engaged in either verbalization or an unrelated verbal activity, and then attempted to identify the target wine from among three foils. As predicted, only the untrained wine drinkers showed impaired wine recognition following verbalization. The results are explained in terms of the differential development of perceptual and verbal skills in the course of becoming an expert. IS - 2 JF - Journal of Memory and Language SN - 0749596X EP - 245 TI - The Misremembrance of Wines Past: Verbal and Perceptual Expertise Differentially Mediate Verbal Overshadowing of Taste Memory VL - 35 SP - 231 KW - general AU - Melcher, J PY - 1996/04// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jmla.1996.0013 ER -