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Direct linkDavis, Danielle K.; Abrams, Lise – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
When people read questions like "How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the ark?", many mistakenly answer "2" despite knowing that Noah sailed the ark. This "Moses illusion" occurs when names share semantic features. Two experiments examined whether shared "visual" concepts (facial features)…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Semantics, Visual Stimuli, Interference (Learning)
