Semantic and Phonological Influences on Memory, False Memory, and Reminding
Matzen, Laura Eileen
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Description
Title
Semantic and Phonological Influences on Memory, False Memory, and Reminding
Author(s)
Matzen, Laura Eileen
Issue Date
2008
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Benjamin, Aaron S.
Department of Study
Psychology
Discipline
Psychology
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Language, Linguistics
Language
eng
Abstract
Experiments 1 and 2 show that study strategy, which is guided by the context of the studied words, has a substantial impact on the relative amounts of surface and semantic information that are encoded in memory, resulting in different patterns of memory errors at test. Experiment 3 shows that older adults are able to use these naturalistic strategies in the same way as younger adults, resulting in the same pattern of memory errors. Experiment 4 plots the forgetting functions for surface and semantic information and investigates the relationship between forgetting and false alarm rates to semantic and phonological lures. Finally, Experiment 5 investigates how effectively readers can use surface and semantic information to cue memory for previously studied items. This experiment uses event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine the brain activity in response to reminding cues for items that were later remembered compared to those that were later forgotten.
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