title: The schema provokes a disparity of false recollection between actions and objects in an everyday scene.
abstract: We explored the effect of the schema on recognition memories and subjective experiences for actions and objects in an everyday scene. At first, participants watched slides of a man cooking in a kitchen. The man performed schema-consistent actions, and schema-consistent objects were left. After watching the slides, participants completed a recognition test, a remember/know test, and a Perception/Thought/Emotion/Context questionnaire. We confirmed three main results. First, participants made more false recognitions for schema-consistent distracters than for schema-inconsistent distracters with more "remember" judgments accompanied by perceptual, thought, and contextual details, and with more "know" judgments. Second, participants made more false recognitions for schema-consistent object distracters than for schema-consistent action distracters. Third, participants more frequently recognized schema-consistent action targets than schema-consistent object targets with more "remember" judgments. Both action memory and object memory were reconstructed under the schema, provoking false recognitions for schema-consistent distracters. However, the memories of schema-consistent action targets were so recollective that they could prevent false recognitions for schema-consistent action distracters.
authors.affiliation: College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan. ryom_cc@yahoo.co.jp
authors.forename: Ryoma
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Yukio
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Itsukushima
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014796:Visual Perception; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Everyday scene; perception/thought/emotion/context questionnaire; recognition memory; remember/know judgment; schema