ICPS

2023 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2023

Semantic Associates Create Retroactive Interference on an Independent Recall Task

Brussels, Belgium · March 2023

poster · Cognitive Science

  • Kelly Bennion
    California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
  • James Antony
    California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Abstract

Participants learned unique locations for words that produce false memories in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm prior to centrally viewing words related to half of the Phase 1 words. Spatial memory of Phase 1 words was worse for words whose associates appeared in Phase 2, suggesting that semantic material caused retroactive interference.

Memory