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Phonological false recognition produced by bottom-up automatic activation in young and older people
Encarna SatorresSalvador AlgarabelJuan C. MeléndezJoaquín EscuderoAlfonso Pitarquesubject
AdultMaleFalse memory050105 experimental psychologyYoung Adult03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)MemoryPhoneticsHumans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesGeneral PsychologyAged05 social sciencesAge FactorsLinguisticsRecognition PsychologyTop-down and bottom-up designFalse recognitionMental RecallFemaleAlphabetPsychological TheoryPsychologyOlder people030217 neurology & neurosurgeryCognitive psychologydescription
Two experiments explored a new procedure to implicitly induce phonological false memories in young and older people. On the study tasks, half of the words were formed from half of the letters in the alphabet, whereas the remaining words were formed from all the letters in the alphabet. On the recognition tests, there were three types of non-studied new words: critical lures formed from the same half of the letters as the studied words; distractors formed from the other half of the letters not used, and distractors formed from all the letters in the alphabet. In both experiments, the results showed that, in both young and older people, critical lures produced more false recognitions than distractors composed of all the letters in the alphabet, which, in turn, produced more false alarms than distractors composed of the letters not used during the study. These results support the predictions of the activation/monitoring models, which assume that false memories are partly due to activation spreading from items (semantically or phonologically) related to the critical words.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-11 | Memory |