Dissociated developmental trajectories for semantic and phonological false memories.

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False recognition following presentation of semantically related and phonologically related word lists was evaluated in 8-, 11-, and 13-year-olds. Children heard lists of words that were either semantic (e.g., bed, rest, wake ...) or phonological associates (e.g., pole, bowl, hole ...) of a critical unpresented word (e.g., sleep, roll), respectively. A semantic false memory was defined as false recognition of a semantically related but unpresented word. A phonological false memory was defined as false recognition of a phonologically related but unpresented word. False memories in the two tasks showed opposite developmental trends, increasing with age for semantic relatedness and decreasing with age for phonological relatedness.

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Author/s: Holliday, Robyn E (RE); Weekes, Brendan S (BS);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. R.Holliday(-atsign-)kent.ac.uk

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Randomized Controlled Trial

Journal: Memory (Hove, England) (Memory), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2006-Jul; vol 14 (issue 5) : pp 624-36

Dates: Created 2006/06/06; Completed 2006/12/12;

PMID: 16754246, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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