The simultaneous recognition of multiple words: A process analysis.

In everyday life, recognition decisions often have to be made for multiple objects simultaneously. In contrast, research on recognition memory has predominantly relied on single-item recognition paradigms. We present a first systematic investigation into the cognitive processes that differ between s...

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Publicado en:Memory & Cognition Vol. 49; no. 4; pp. 787 - 803
Autores principales: Voormann, Anne, Spektor, Mikhail S., Klauer, Karl Christoph
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature May2021
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          Department of Psychology, University of Freiburg, Engelbergerstraße 41, 79106, Freiburg, Germany
          Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
          Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Barcelona, Spain
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        Memory
        Analysis of variance
        Cognition
        Confidence intervals
        Word recognition
        Mathematical models
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        Cognitive modeling
        Continuous models
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      ab: In everyday life, recognition decisions often have to be made for multiple objects simultaneously. In contrast, research on recognition memory has predominantly relied on single-item recognition paradigms. We present a first systematic investigation into the cognitive processes that differ between single-word and paired-word tests of recognition memory. In a single-word test, participants categorize previously presented words and new words as having been studied before (old) or not (new). In a paired-word test, however, the test words are randomly paired, and participants provide joint old–new categorizations of both words for each pair. Across two experiments (N = 170), we found better memory performance for words tested singly rather than in pairs and, more importantly, dependencies between the two single-word decisions implied by the paired-word test. We extended two popular model classes of single-item recognition to paired-word recognition, a discrete-state model and a continuous model. Both models attribute performance differences between single-word and paired-word recognition to differences in memory-evidence strength. Discrete-state models account for the dependencies in paired-word decisions in terms of dependencies in guessing. In contrast, continuous models map the dependencies on mnemonic (Experiment 1 & 2) as well as on decisional processes (Experiment 2). However, in both experiments, model comparison favored the discrete-state model, indicating that memory decisions for word pairs seem to be mediated by discrete states. Our work suggests that individuals tackle multiple-item recognition fundamentally differently from single-item recognition, and it provides both a behavioral and model-based paradigm for studying multiple-item recognition.
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