Susceptibility to semantic illusions: An individual-differences perspective
Susceptibility to semantic illusions: An individual-differences perspective
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DOI:
10.3758/bf03196396
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发表时间:
2001-04-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Daneman, M
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作者:
Hannon, B;Daneman, M
When asked How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the ark, people frequently respond "two" even though they know it was Noah, not Moses, who took animals on the ark. We replicate previous research by showing that susceptibility to semantic illusions is influenced by the semantic relatedness of both the impostor word and the surrounding context. However, we also show that the two text manipulations make independent contributions to semantic illusions, and we propose two individual-differences mechanisms that might underlie these two effects. We propose that the ability to resist the lure of a semantically related impostor word is related to the individual's skill at accessing and reasoning about knowledge from long-term memory. And we propose that the ability to resist the lure of the surrounding sentential context is related to the individual's capacity to simultaneously process and store information in working memory.