Homogeneity of item material boosts the list length effect in recognition memory: A global matching perspective
| Autor: | Martin Brandt, Ann-Kathrin Zaiser, Martin Schnuerch |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Linguistics and Language Adolescent Length effect Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Young Adult Homogeneity (physics) Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Recognition memory Psychological Tests business.industry 05 social sciences Pattern recognition Recognition Psychology Middle Aged Models Theoretical Global matching Pattern Recognition Visual Homogeneous Female Artificial intelligence business Psychology Row |
| Zdroj: | Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition. 45(5) |
| ISSN: | 1939-1285 |
| Popis: | Kinnell and Dennis (2012) showed that the list length effect in recognition memory is only observed for homogeneous stimulus material. On the basis of the global matching model MINERVA 2 (Hintzman, 1986, 1988), we offer a theoretical explanation for this finding. According to our analysis, homogeneous material immunizes against the disruptive influence of preexperimental items, which might mask the intralist interference predicted by global matching models for familiar heterogeneous material. We tested our approach in three experiments. In Experiment 1, we found list length effects for homogeneous photographs of flowers and landscapes. In Experiment 2 and 3, we presented heterogeneous photographs of scenes (Experiment 2) and faces (Experiment 3). List length effects were only found if these photographs were homogenized by the use of image-processing filters. We further show that our explanation is also in line with the results of Dennis and Chapman (2010) who found an inverse list length effect. Overall, our results provide evidence for a global matching account of familiarity. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|