Effects of perceptual similarity but not semantic association on false recognition in aging

This study investigated semantic and perceptual influences on false recognition in older and young adults in a variant on the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm. In two experiments, participants encoded intermixed sets of semantically associated words, and sets of unrelated words. Each set was presen...

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Main Authors: Kayleigh Burnside, Caroline Hope, Emma Gill, Alexa M. Morcom
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2017-12-01
Series:PeerJ
Subjects:
DRM
Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/4184.pdf