Recognition during recall failure: Semantic feature matching as a mechanism for recognition of semantic cues when recall fails
Autor: | Samantha Wagner, Anthony J. Ryals, Anne M. Cleary |
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Rok vydání: | 2015 |
Předmět: |
Adult
Matching (statistics) Semantic feature Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Representation (arts) Cue-dependent forgetting 050105 experimental psychology Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Humans Semantic memory 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Communication Recall business.industry 05 social sciences Recall test Recognition Psychology Semantics Feature (linguistics) Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Mental Recall Cues business Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
Zdroj: | Memory & Cognition. 44:50-62 |
ISSN: | 1532-5946 0090-502X |
Popis: | Research suggests that a feature-matching process underlies cue familiarity-detection when cued recall with graphemic cues fails. When a test cue (e.g., potchbork) overlaps in graphemic features with multiple unrecalled studied items (e.g., patchwork, pitchfork, pocketbook, pullcork), higher cue familiarity ratings are given during recall failure of all of the targets than when the cue overlaps in graphemic features with only one studied target and that target fails to be recalled (e.g., patchwork). The present study used semantic feature production norms (McRae et al., Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 37, 547–559, 2005) to examine whether the same holds true when the cues are semantic in nature (e.g., jaguar is used to cue cheetah). Indeed, test cues (e.g., cedar) that overlapped in semantic features (e.g., a_tree, has_bark, etc.) with four unretrieved studied items (e.g., birch, oak, pine, willow) received higher cue familiarity ratings during recall failure than test cues that overlapped in semantic features with only two (also unretrieved) studied items (e.g., birch, oak), which in turn received higher familiarity ratings during recall failure than cues that did not overlap in semantic features with any studied items. These findings suggest that the feature-matching theory of recognition during recall failure can accommodate recognition of semantic cues during recall failure, providing a potential mechanism for conceptually-based forms of cue recognition during target retrieval failure. They also provide converging evidence for the existence of the semantic features envisaged in feature-based models of semantic knowledge representation and for those more concretely specified by the production norms of McRae et al. (Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 37, 547–559, 2005). |
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