Sidhu, DM;
Vigliocco, G;
(2022)
Effects of Iconicity in Recognition Memory.
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Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Cognitive Diversity, CogSci 2022.
(pp. pp. 176-183).
Cognitive Science Society
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Abstract
Iconicity refers to a resemblance between word form and meaning. Previous work has shown that iconic words are learned earlier and processed faster. Here we examined whether iconicity would also affect a recognition memory task. We also manipulated the level at which items were encoded-with a focus on either their meaning or their form-in order to gain insight into the mechanism by which iconicity would affect memory. In comparison with non-iconic words, iconic words were associated with a higher false alarm rate, a lower d' score, and a lower criterion C. We did not observe any interaction between iconicity and encoding condition. We also conducted an analysis of recognition memory megastudy data and found that iconicity was predictive of higher false alarms and a lower criterion C across 1, 646 items. We interpret these results as suggesting that iconicity leads to a feeling of familiarity in recognition memory.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Effects of Iconicity in Recognition Memory |
| Event: | CogSci 2022: 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Cognitive Diversity |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5wh9c4fr |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY). |
| Keywords: | Iconicity; recognition memory; sound symbolism; levels of processing |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Experimental Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10164586 |
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