The role of item similarity in part-list cueing impairment

Aslan, Alp and Baeuml, Karl-Heinz (2009) The role of item similarity in part-list cueing impairment. MEMORY, 17 (7): PII 912885. pp. 697-707. ISSN 0965-8211,

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Abstract

The presentation of a subset of studied items as retrieval cues can have detrimental effects on recall of the remaining (target) items. In three experiments we examined whether such part-list cueing impairment depends on the similarity between cue and target items. Item similarity was manipulated by making use of pre-experimental semantic similarities between cue and target items (Experiments 1 and 2), or was episodically induced through a similarity-encoding task, in which participants were asked to interrelate cue and target items in a meaningful way (Experiment 3). In all three experiments reliable part-list cueing impairment arose when the similarity between cues and targets was low, but no impairment was found when the similarity between cues and targets was high. Inhibitory as well as non-inhibitory explanations of the findings are discussed.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: LONG-TERM-MEMORY; RETRIEVAL INHIBITION; STRATEGY DISRUPTION; FREE-RECALL; CUES; RECOGNITION; MECHANISMS; CATEGORIES; TESTS; Episodic memory; Part-list cueing impairment; Item similarity; Inhibition; Feature suppression; Retrieval competition
Subjects: 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology
Divisions: Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie
Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie IV (Entwicklungs- und Kognitionspsychologie) - Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Bäuml
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 13 Oct 2020 06:04
Last Modified: 13 Oct 2020 06:04
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/29805

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