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The bias for a recognition judgement depends on the response emitted in a prior recognition judgement

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: On each trial of the experimental procedure the participant read a list of words and made successive recognition judgements to multiple test words. The bias for a given recognition judgement was more conservative if the judgement followed a correct positive response to a target than if it followed a correct negative response to a lure. Similar results were not observed for successive semantic recognition judgements. The bias shift was greater when the study list was short than when the list was long. The results suggest that participants in a recognition task have a sense of the size of the set of targets that might possibly be presented on the next trial and that, under conditions in which a word can only be presented once during the test phase, their bias becomes more conservative after a positive response to a target because the set is depleted.

Source: Memory

DOI: 10.1080/09658211003601506

Authors: Stephen Dopkins, Jesse Sargent, Catherine Trinh Ngo

Institutions: George Washington University, Washington University in St. Louis, Baylor College of Medicine

Language: English

Topic: Memory Processes and Influences

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute of Mental Health

Awards: G6600594130, Suppression in simple recognition memory