Semantic and Phonological Influences on Memory, False Memory, and Reminding

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Matzen, Laura Eileen

Contributors dc:contributor

• Benjamin, Aaron S.

• Language, Linguistics

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3337863

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/82164