On a Recognition Task in Which Some Distractors Were Half-Familiar

Abstract

Models are suggested for the task of recognizing word-pairs, where the distractors may be pairs of new words, or may be a new word paired with a previously-seen word. These models are relevant to an experiment recently reported by Isingrini et al., and suggest rather different conclusions to theirs—namely, that the elderly differ from the young in both learning and response selection.