[CaBSSem] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: Friday, September 20, 2024 @ 3:00 pm; Stephen Lindsay (UVic)

[David Medler]

The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will take place on Friday, September 20 at 3:00pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228) featuring our very own Stephen Lindsay.

Title:
Recognition Memory Response Bias: Individual, Cultural, and Materials-based Differences

Abstract:
In an old/new recognition task, participants study a set of items and are later shown those studied items randomly intermixed with otherwise comparable non-studied items.  They are to say, for each test probe, whether it was or was not studied.  Response bias in old/new recognition memory is defined operationally as different rates of Misses (saying no to studied items) versus False Alarms (saying yes to non-studied items): More False Alarms than Misses defines liberal bias, whereas more Misses than False Alarms describes conservative bias.  My students and I have discovered evidence of three interesting things about this:  (a) There are stable individual differences in recognition response bias; (b) there may be cultural differences in recognition memory response bias; and (c) response bias can be affected by the nature of the stimulus materials.


Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at
https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81764468633?pwd=L2qpMid4hLXCGQrv9QQdY1bpleAnrm.1

For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click "Sign in with SSO" so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom.

Hope to see you there!

David


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David A. Medler, PhD
Associate Teaching Professor
Associate Chair
Department of Psychology
University of Victoria

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