On rejecting emotional lures created by phonological neighborhood activation
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-1-2006
Abstract
The authors conducted 2 experiments to assess how phonologically related lures are rejected in a false memory paradigm. Some phonological lures were emotional (i.e., taboo) words, and others were not. The authors manipulated the presence of taboo items on the study list and reduced the ability to use controlled rejection strategies by dividing attention and forcing a short response deadline. The results converge on the idea that participants reduce false alarms to emotional lures by setting more stringent recognition criteria for these items based on their expected memorability. Additionally, emotional lures are less familiar than nonemotional lures because emotional lures have affective and semantic features that mismatch studied nonemotional items.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition
First Page
847
Last Page
53
Recommended Citation
Starns, J. J., Cook, G. I., Hicks, J. L., & Marsh, R. L. (2006). On rejecting emotional lures created by phonological neighborhood activation. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, 32 (4), 847-53. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.32.4.847