| Type of Document |
Dissertation |
| Author |
Richler, Jennifer Joanna
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| URN |
etd-04232010-122137 |
| Title |
Automaticity of Basic-Level Categorization Accounts for Naming Effects in Recognition Memory |
| Degree |
PhD |
| Department |
Psychology |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Thomas Palmeri |
Committee Chair |
| Isabel Gauthier |
Committee Co-Chair |
| Geoffrey Woodman |
Committee Member |
| Sean Polyn |
Committee Member |
| Timothy Curran |
Committee Member |
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| Keywords |
- naming
- recognition memory
- categorization
- depth of processing
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| Date of Defense |
2010-04-22 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
What is the consequence of calling objects by their names? Lupyan (2008) suggests that overtly naming objects at the basic-level impairs subsequent recognition memory because naming shifts the memory representation towards the category prototype. Here I show that 1) processing objects at the basic-level without categorization or naming responses produces equivalent memory effects as overt naming and 2) depth of processing better accounts for this so-called naming effect. These results suggest that naming does not influence memory by changing the representation, but rather that naming is a shallow processing task because it is an automatic instantiation of basic-level categorization.
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