- Title
- Item recognition memory and the receiver operating characteristic
- Creator
- Heathcote, A.
- Relation
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition Vol. 29, Issue 6, p. 1210-1230
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.29.6.1210
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2003
- Description
- Four experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of study time, study repetition, semantic and orthographic similarity, and category length on item recognition memory receiver operating characteristics (ROCs). Analyses of ROC shape rejected A. P. Yonelinas's (1994) dual-process model. The normal unequal variance signal-detection model provided a better account of the data, except for a small but consistent excess of high-confidence errors. It was found that z-transformed ROC slope was increased by similarity, category length, and study item repetition, rejecting R. Ratcliff, G. McKoon, and M. Tindall's (1994) "constancy-of-slopes" generalization for these variables, but slope was relatively unaffected by massed study time.
- Subject
- item recognition memory; receiver operating characteristics (ROCs); study time; study repetition; category length; semantic and orthographic similarity; unequal variance signal-detection model
- Identifier
- uon:1478
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/27223
- Identifier
- ISSN:0278-7393
- Rights
- This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.
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