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The face you recognize may not be the one you saw: Memory conjunction errors in individuals with or without learning disability
Author(s) -
DANIELSSON HENRIK,
RÖNNBERG JERKER,
LEVEN ANNA,
ANDERSSON JAN,
ANDERSSON KARIN,
LYXELL BJÖRN
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2006.00505.x
Subject(s) - conjunction (astronomy) , psychology , learning disability , task (project management) , cognitive psychology , feature (linguistics) , face (sociological concept) , dual (grammatical number) , developmental psychology , art , linguistics , philosophy , physics , social science , literature , management , astronomy , sociology , economics
Memory conjunction errors, that is, when a combination of two previously presented stimuli is erroneously recognized as previously having been seen, were investigated in a face recognition task with drawings and photographs in 23 individuals with learning disability, and 18 chronologically age‐matched controls without learning disability. Compared to the controls, individuals with learning disability committed significantly more conjunction errors, feature errors (one old and one new component), but had lower correct recognition, when the results were adjusted for different guessing levels. A dual‐processing approach gained more support than a binding approach. However, neither of the approaches could explain all of the results. The results of the learning disability group were only partly related to non‐verbal intelligence.