Talk:Specific State Memory Recall

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So the theory is that when you are drunk, you remember what happened when you were drunk the last time? Any reliable sources or was this invented while getting hammered down at the pub one night? Weregerbil 10:30, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

No, it's real, but it's called context-dependent or state-dependent memory. It's the sort of thing one usually learns about in an intro psych class. Look at this abstract for instance, which showed that alcohol facilitated retrieval of associations made when alcohol was originally present. It's also frequently talked about with regards to chewing gum (search for the words chewing gum context on pubmed.com for many examples). digfarenough (talk) 18:16, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

(I should mention, though, that the page is overly focused on alcohol. This is just a single instance of the more general phenomenon that retrieving information while in the same context that it was encoded usually produces better retrieval. Maybe I should fix up the page a little. I'll see if I have time later.) digfarenough (talk) 18:22, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

There is already State-dependent learning. If this is an unusual term for the phenomenon (is it? Zero non-Wikipedia google hits on this article's title) then perhaps merge there? Weregerbil 18:49, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I've never heard of this name for it. I think it's pretty safe to just do the merge, since there was only one other editor on this page. And I'm going to remove that image, it has nothing to do with the article. digfarenough (talk) 19:26, 21 August 2007 (UTC)