TY - JOUR
T1 - Distinctive encoding reduces the Jacoby-Whitehouse illusion
AU - Gallo, David A.
AU - Perlmutter, David H.
AU - Moore, Christopher D.
AU - Schacter, Daniel L.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by National Institute on Aging Grants AG021369 to D.A.G. and AG08441 to D.L.S. Preliminary analyses of these data were presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society in 2003 (Vancouver, BC).
PY - 2008/3
Y1 - 2008/3
N2 - We investigated the influence of distinctive encoding on the Jacoby and Whitehouse (1989) illusion. Subjects studied visually presented words that were associated with either an auditory presentation of the same word (non-distinctive encoding) or a picture of the object (distinctive encoding). In both conditions, words were visually presented on the recognition test, and half were preceded by brief repetition primes. Priming test items increased hits and false alarms in the auditory condition, demonstrating the Jacoby-Whitehouse illusion. This illusion was reduced in the picture condition. In order to test whether this distinctiveness effect was caused by a recollection-based response strategy (i.e., the distinctiveness heuristic), we minimized recollection-based responding by having subjects make speeded recognition decisions. Contrary to the distinctiveness heuristic hypothesis, speeded responding did not eliminate the distinctiveness effect on the Jacoby-Whitehouse illusion. Picture encoding may reduce this illusion via a shift in preretrieval orientation, as opposed to a postretrieval editing process.
AB - We investigated the influence of distinctive encoding on the Jacoby and Whitehouse (1989) illusion. Subjects studied visually presented words that were associated with either an auditory presentation of the same word (non-distinctive encoding) or a picture of the object (distinctive encoding). In both conditions, words were visually presented on the recognition test, and half were preceded by brief repetition primes. Priming test items increased hits and false alarms in the auditory condition, demonstrating the Jacoby-Whitehouse illusion. This illusion was reduced in the picture condition. In order to test whether this distinctiveness effect was caused by a recollection-based response strategy (i.e., the distinctiveness heuristic), we minimized recollection-based responding by having subjects make speeded recognition decisions. Contrary to the distinctiveness heuristic hypothesis, speeded responding did not eliminate the distinctiveness effect on the Jacoby-Whitehouse illusion. Picture encoding may reduce this illusion via a shift in preretrieval orientation, as opposed to a postretrieval editing process.
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U2 - 10.3758/MC.36.2.461
DO - 10.3758/MC.36.2.461
M3 - Article
C2 - 18426074
AN - SCOPUS:44649135685
SN - 0090-502X
VL - 36
SP - 461
EP - 466
JO - Memory and Cognition
JF - Memory and Cognition
IS - 2
ER -