Senese Vincenzo Paolo, Sergi Ida, Iachini Tina
Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples, Via Vivaldi, 43, 81100, Caserta, Italy.
Cogn Process. 2010 Aug;11(3):213-7. doi: 10.1007/s10339-009-0271-1. Epub 2009 Jul 17.
The aim of the present study was to compare the activation levels of true and false memories in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm. For this purpose, we used a lexical decision task (LDT) that can be considered a relative pure measure of activation. Participants had to study a list of words that were semantically associated to a critical non-presented word (CI), and afterwards had to classify the actually studied words, the CI and new words in the LDT. Results indicated that the classification latency of the CI was the same as actually studied words and shorter than new words. The results might be interpreted as evidence that the false and true memory items have the same activation level and that the false memory effect can be based on the indirect activation of the CI at the encoding.
本研究的目的是比较在Deese-Roediger-McDermott（DRM）范式中真真实记忆和错误记忆的激活水平。为此，我们使用了一种词汇判断任务（LDT），它可被视为激活的相对纯粹的测量方法。参与者必须学习一系列与关键未呈现单词（CI）语义相关的单词，然后在LDT中对实际学习的单词、CI和新单词进行分类。结果表明，CI的分类潜伏期与实际学习的单词相同，且比新单词短。这些结果可能被解释为错误记忆和真实记忆项目具有相同激活水平的证据，并且错误记忆效应可能基于编码时CI的间接激活。
