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The Strategic Nature of False Recognition in the DRM Paradigm
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Miller, Michael B.; Guerin, Scott A.; Wolford, George L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
The false memory effect produced by the Deese/Roediger & McDermott (DRM) paradigm is reportedly impervious to warnings to avoid false alarming to the critical lures (D. A. Gallo, H. L. Roediger III, & K. B. McDermott, 2001). This finding has been used as strong evidence against models that attribute the false alarms to a decision…
Descriptors: Models, Memory, Recognition (Psychology), Test Items
Specific Previous Experience Affects Perception of Harmony and Meter
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Creel, Sarah C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Prior knowledge shapes our experiences, but which prior knowledge shapes which experiences? This question is addressed in the domain of music perception. Three experiments were used to determine whether listeners activate specific musical memories during music listening. Each experiment provided listeners with one of two musical contexts that was…
Descriptors: Music, Prior Learning, Experiments, Experimental Psychology
Focusing on Pronouns: Consequences of Subjecthood, Pronominalisation, and Contrastive Focus
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Kaiser, Elsi – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
We report two visual-world eye-tracking experiments that investigated the effects of subjecthood, pronominalisation, and contrastive focus on the interpretation of pronouns in subsequent discourse. By probing the effects of these factors on real-time pronoun interpretation, we aim to contribute to our understanding of how topicality-related…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Eye Movements
Eye Movements and Display Change Detection during Reading
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Slattery, Timothy J.; Angele, Bernhard; Rayner, Keith – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
In the boundary change paradigm (Rayner, 1975), when a reader's eyes cross an invisible boundary location, a preview word is replaced by a target word. Readers are generally unaware of such changes due to saccadic suppression. However, some readers detect changes on a few trials and a small percentage of them detect many changes. Two experiments…
Descriptors: Sentences, Eye Movements, Human Body, Word Processing
Parafoveal and Foveal Processing of Abbreviations during Eye Fixations in Reading: Making a Case for Case
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Slattery, Timothy J.; Schotter, Elizabeth R.; Berry, Raymond W.; Rayner, Keith – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
The processing of abbreviations in reading was examined with an eye movement experiment. Abbreviations were of 2 distinct types: acronyms (abbreviations that can be read with the normal grapheme-phoneme correspondence [GPC] rules, such as NASA) and initialisms (abbreviations in which the GPCs are letter names, such as NCAA). Parafoveal and foveal…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Letters (Correspondence), Models
Thinking about the Weather: How Display Salience and Knowledge Affect Performance in a Graphic Inference Task
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Hegarty, Mary; Canham, Matt S.; Fabrikant, Sara I. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Three experiments examined how bottom-up and top-down processes interact when people view and make inferences from complex visual displays (weather maps). Bottom-up effects of display design were investigated by manipulating the relative visual salience of task-relevant and task-irrelevant information across different maps. Top-down effects of…
Descriptors: Weather, Computer System Design, Eye Movements, Maps