What is the connection between true and false memories? The differential roles of interitem associations in recall and recognition.

Autor: McEvoy CL; Department of Aging and Mental Health, University of South Florida, Tampa 33612 USA. cmcevoy@hal.fmhi.usf.edu, Nelson DL, Komatsu T
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition [J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn] 1999 Sep; Vol. 25 (5), pp. 1177-94.
DOI: 10.1037//0278-7393.25.5.1177
Abstrakt: Veridical memory for presented list words and false memory for nonpresented but related items were tested using the Deese/Roediger and McDermott paradigm. The strength and density of preexisting connections among the list words, and from the list words to the critical items, were manipulated. The likelihood of producing false memories in free recall varied with the strength of connections from the list words to the critical items but was inversely related to the density of the interconnections among the list words. In contrast, veridical recall of list words was positively related to the density of the interconnections. A final recognition test showed that both false and veridical memories were more likely when the list words were more densely interconnected. The results are discussed in terms of an associative model of memory, Processing Implicit and Explicit Representations (PIER 2) that describes the influence of implicitly activated preexisting information on memory performance.
Databáze: MEDLINE