Studies of lexical contagion: Interactions between lexical and episodic memory

情景记忆使我们能够识别以前经历过的项目或事件。词汇记忆代表单词的正字法（拼写）、语音（声音）和语义（意义）信息。本项目应用词汇记忆研究的最新进展，系统地研究单词和非单词的正字法和语音对情景记忆的影响。这项新发现将与众所周知的导致错误记忆的语义效应进行比较。研究结果对评价和建立统一的记忆模型，提供客观定义的刺激材料和记忆性能基线具有重要意义，可用于应用研究。

Episodic memory allows us to recognize previously experienced items or events. Lexical memory represents orthographic (spelling), phonological (sound) and semantic (meaning) information about words. This project applies recent developments in the study of lexical memory to systematically investigate orthographic and phonological effects on episodic memory for words and nonwords. The new findings will be compared with well known semantic effects that give rise to false memories. The results will be important for evaluating and developing unified models of memory, and providing objectively defined stimulus materials and baselines of memory performance that can be used in applied research.