Dissociated developmental trajectories for semantic and phonological false memories.
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.
Holliday
Robyn E
RE
Department of Psychology, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. R.Holliday@kent.ac.uk
Weekes
Brendan S
BS
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D006801:Humans; D007807:Language Tests; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011581:Psychological Tests; D002666:Psychology, Child; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D013060:Speech