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Direct linkOzubko, Jason D.; Joordens, Steve – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
The pseudoword effect is the finding that pseudowords (i.e., rare words or pronounceable nonwords) give rise to more hits and false alarms than words. Using the retrieving effectively from memory (REM) model of recognition memory, we tested a familiarity-based account of the pseudoword effect: Specifically, the pseudoword effect arises because…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semantics, Familiarity, Word Recognition
