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Modeling Source Memory Decision Bounds, Angela M. Pazzaglia Jan 2010

Modeling Source Memory Decision Bounds, Angela M. Pazzaglia

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

Current Signal Detection Theory models of source memory necessitate assumptions about the underlying distributions of source strengths to describe source memory performance. The current experiments applied a modified version of the same-different task in order to plot individual memory stimuli along a controlled dimension of the average frequency of voices. This technique allowed us to determine that subjects were using an independent-observations strategy rather than a differencing strategy when deciding whether two test words were spoken by the same or different female speakers at study. By including two male and two female voices and changing the task distinction from same …


Transposed Letter Effects In Prefixed Words: Implications For Morphological Decomposition, Kathleen M. Masserang Jan 2010

Transposed Letter Effects In Prefixed Words: Implications For Morphological Decomposition, Kathleen M. Masserang

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

The nature of morphological decomposition in visual word recognition remains unclear regarding morphemically complex words such as prefixed words. To investigate the decomposition process, the current study examined the extent to which effects involving transposed letters are modulated when the transposed letters cross a morpheme boundary. Previous studies using masked priming have demonstrated that transposed letter effects (i.e. superior priming when the prime contains transposed letters than when it contains replacement letters) disappear or markedly decrease when the transposition occurs across a morpheme boundary. The current experiments further investigated transposed letter effects in prefixed words using both parafoveal previews in …