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phenomenon > memory phenomenon > mirror effect

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mirror effect  

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  • The mirror effect refers to "a regularity of recognition memory in which a variable has opposite effects on the hit and false alarm rates. For example, low frequency words have a higher hit rate and a lower false alarm rate than high frequency words." (Neath et al., 2021, p. 1833).

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  • word frequency mirror effect

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Glanzer, M., & Adams, J. K. (1985). The mirror effect in recognition memory. Memory & Cognition, 13(1), 8–20. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03198438

    [Study type: literature review / Access: open]
  • • Glanzer, M., & Adams, J. K. (1990). The mirror effect in recognition memory: data and theory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 16(1), 5-16. https://doi.org/10.1037//0278-7393.16.1.5

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Neath, I., Hockley, W. E., & Ensor, T. M. (2021). Stimulus-based mirror effects revisited. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 48(12), 1833–1849. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000901

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

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  • Frank Arnould

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  • • Heathcote, A. (2006) Examining the origins of the word frequency effect in episodic recognition memory and its relationship to the word frequency effect in lexical memory. University of Newcastle, Australia. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/807086
  • • Joykutty, Z. (2022, January 18). Mirror Effect in Recognition-Induced Forgetting. https://osf.io/46jky/
  • • Neath, I. (2022, January 20). Mirror Effect and Stimulus Sets. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/PJD6K

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