P435 Memory Literature Review
Name: Laura Babinsky
Do a literature search on a topic related to recognition memory, such as the mirror effect, distinctivness effects with faces or words, arousing images, or some other element of memory.
Copy the reference below, save the pdf to cfs/scratch, and write a short summary below the reference in the space below.
1) The false memory and the mirror effects: The role of familiarity and backward association in creating false recollections
David Anaki, Yifat Faran, Dorit Ben-Shalom, and Avishai Henik
aRotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, 3560 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ont., Canada M6A 2E1
This experiment examined whether false memory for non-presented lures would be influenced by the lure’s familiarity. Their results revealed that false memory levels for low familiarity lures were higher than that for high familiarity lures, but only when the backward association strength between the presented list’s words and the lure was high. In contrast, higher false alarms were observed for high frequency unrelated distractors. They relate their results to the false memory effect, and suggest an activation/monitoring account of the effect, according to which non-presented lures are activated during encoding.
2) Sensitivity reductions in false recognition: A measure of false memories with stronger theoretical implications
Westerberg, Carmen E; Marsolek, Chad J, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition. Vol 29(5), Sep 2003, pp. 747-759
This study states that signal detection analyses of recognition memory indicate that a bias to respond "old" is large for critical words that are centrally related with previously encoded word lists, is small for words that are less related, and is not observed for unrelated words. Also, recognition sensitivity has not been previously shown to differ between those conditions. In this study, they conduct three experiments, where critical-word sensitivity was lower than sensitivity for other word types, but related-word sensitivity was not lower than sensitivity for unrelated words.