Negative Correlation between Backward Associative Strength and False Recognition Rates for Pictorial Stimuli in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott Paradigm

Several researches argued that false memories in DRM paradigm are caused by associative activation. This can be explained by a correlation between the associative strength and the occurrence rate of false memory. Past studies mainly verified the relation with word stimuli; therefore, our study used pictorial stimuli to examine it.