RT Journal Article
T1 Examining the effects of pleasantness ratings on correct and false recognition in the DRM paradigm: accuracy, recollection and familiarity estimates
A1 Álvarez Martínez, Alicia
A1 Sampedro Vizcaya, María José
A1 Fernández Rey, José
K1 DRM paradigm
K1 False recognition
K1 Distinctive encoding
K1 Item-specific processing
K1 Pleasantness rating
K1 Recollection
K1 Familiarity
K1 Mirror effect in recognition memory
AB Distinctive encoding usually increases correct recognition while also producinga reduction in false recognition. In the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM)illusion this phenomenon, called the mirror effect, occurs when participantsfocus on unique features of each of the words in the study list. In previousstudies, the pleasantness rating task, used to foster distinctive encoding,generated different patterns of results. The main aim of our research is toexamine under what circumstances this task can produce the mirror effect in theDRM paradigm, based on evidence from recognition accuracy and subjectiveretrieval experience. In Experiment 1, a standard version (word pleasantnessrating on a 5-point Likert-type scale) was used for comparison with two otherencoding conditions: shallow processing (vowel identification) and a readonlycontrol. The standard task, compared to the other conditions, increasedcorrect recognition, but did not reduce false recognition, and this result maybe affected by the number of lists presented for study. Therefore, in experiment2, to minimize the possible effect of the so-called retention size, the number ofstudied lists was reduced. In addition, the standard version was compared witha supposedly more item-specific version (participants rated the pleasantness ofwords while thinking of a single reason for this), also including the read-onlycontrol condition. In both versions of the pleasantness rating task, more correctrecognition is achieved compared to the control condition, with no differencesbetween the two versions. In the false recognition observed here, only thespecific pleasantness rating task achieved a reduction relative to the controlcondition. On the other hand, the subjective retrieval experience accompaniedcorrect and false recognition in the various study conditions. Although thestandard pleasantness rating task has been considered to perform item-specificprocessing, our results challenge that claim. Furthermore, we propose a possibleboundary condition of the standard task for the reduction of false recognitionin the DRM paradigm
PB Frontiers Media
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/34537
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/34537
LA eng
NO Alvarez-Martinez A, Sampedro-Vizcaya MJ and Fernandez-Rey J (2024) Examining the effects of pleasantness ratings on correct and false recognition in the DRM paradigm: accuracy, recollection and familiarity estimates. Front. Psychol. 15:1265291
NO The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was partially supported by Axencia Galega de Innovación and Consellería de Economía, Industria e Innovación, Xunta de Galicia (ED431B 2022/19), and by the University of Santiago de Compostela
DS Minerva
RD 28 abr 2026