Memory

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The effect of warnings on false memories in young and older adults.

In the present experiments, we examined adult age differences in the ability to suppress false memories, using the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm (Deese, 1959; Roediger & McDermott, 1995). Participants studied lists of words (e.g., bed, rest, ...
David P McCabe, Anderson D Smith (Mem Cognit, 200210)
effect-warnings-false-memories-young-older-adults.asp

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Positive and negative generation effects, hypermnesia, and total recall time.

Self-generated information is typically remembered better than perceived information (the generation effect). Experimental design produces an important limiting condition for this effect: Generation enhances recall in within-subjects designs, but ...
Neil W Mulligan, Marquinn D Duke (Mem Cognit, 200210)
positive-negative-generation-effects-hypermnesia-total-recall-time.asp

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Tunnel memories for autobiographical events: central details are remembered more frequently from shocking than from happy experiences.

In three experiments, undergraduates recorded as many details as possible for autobiographical memories of highly positive and highly negative events in their lives. Experiment 1 replicated earlier findings for memories of highly negative events: Central ...
Dorthe Berntsen (Mem Cognit, 200210)
tunnel-memories-autobiographical-events-central-details-remembered.asp

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RT and non-RT methodology for semantic priming research with Alzheimers disease patients: a critical review.

This paper provides a critical review of RT and non-RT methodology for the conduct of research on semantic priming in Alzheimers disease (AD) compared to elderly normal (EN) individuals. The review is organized by type of semantic priming (or ...
Beth A Ober (J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 200210)
rt-non-rt-methodology-semantic-priming-research-alzheimer-s-disease.asp

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Common processes may contribute to extinction and habituation.

Psychologists routinely attribute the characteristics of conditioned behavior to complicated cognitive processes. For example, many of the characteristics of behavior undergoing extinction have been attributed to retrieval from memory. The authors argue ...
Frances K McSweeney, Samantha Swindell (J Gen Psychol, 200210)
common-processes-contribute-extinction-habituation.asp

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Conceptual and perceptual processes in prospective remembering: differential influence of attentional resources.

Does prospective remembering rely on strategic, attentionally demanding processes? We report three experiments suggesting that the extent to which attentional processes are required varies according to the character of ongoing task processing. Study-test ...
Deborah McGann, Judi A Ellis, Alan Milne (Mem Cognit, 200210)
conceptual-perceptual-processes-prospective-remembering-differential.asp

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The myth of the encoding-retrieval match.

Modern memory researchers rely heavily on the encoding-retrieval match, defined as the similarity between coded retrieval cues and previously encoded engrams, to explain variability in retention. The encoding-retrieval match is assumed to be causally and ...
James S Nairne (Memory, 200209-11)
myth-encoding-retrieval-match.asp

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Level of processing and the process-dissociation procedure: elusiveness of null effects on estimates of automatic retrieval.

We describe two experiments that used the process-dissociation procedure to investigate the effects of level of processing on estimates of controlled and automatic retrieval processes in word-stem completion tasks. Despite our best endeavours, we found ...
Alan Richardson-Klavehn, John M Gardiner, Cristina Ramponi (Memory, 200209-11)
level-processing-process-dissociation-procedure-elusiveness-null.asp

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Levels of processing: past, present. and future?

In this article I first briefly survey some enduring legacies of the Craik and Lockhart (1972) article on levels of processing (LOP) and address some common criticisms. In the next section I discuss whether memory can be regarded as "pure processing", ...
Fergus I M Craik (Memory, 200209-11)
levels-processing-past-present-future.asp

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Processing approaches to cognition: the impetus from the levels-of-processing framework.

Processing approaches to cognition have a long history, from act psychology to the present, but perhaps their greatest boost was given by the success and dominance of the levels-of-processing framework. We review the history of processing approaches, and ...
Henry L Roediger, David A Gallo, Lisa Geraci (Memory, 200209-11)
processing-approaches-cognition-impetus-levels-processing-framework.asp