Effects of perceptual similarity but not semantic association on false recognition in aging
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- Subject Areas
- Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Psychology
- Keywords
- Cognitive aging, Aging, episodic memory, false memory, DRM, Recognition memory, perceptual false memory, semantic false memory
- Copyright
- © 2017 Burnside et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2017. Effects of perceptual similarity but not semantic association on false recognition in aging. PeerJ Preprints 5:e3126v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3126v1
Abstract
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 presented in a shared distinctive font. Older adults were no more likely to falsely recognize semantically associated lure words compared to unrelated lures also presented in studied fonts. However, they showed an increase in false recognition of lures which were related to studied items only by a shared font. The data show that older adults do not always rely more on prior knowledge in episodic memory tasks. They converge with other findings suggesting that older adults may also be more prone to perceptually-driven errors.
Author Comment
This is a submission to PeerJ for review.