FM task performance We hypothesized that adults would succefuly perform FM as would be demonstrated by the following measures in both versions of the study: RT's The RT's for choosing the target picture in novel target trials would be slower than the reaction times for choosing the target picture in familiar target trials. Accuracy Participants would correctly choose the novel target pictures as the referents for the novel labels in the novel target trials at an above chance (50%) level rate. Memory performance Because the revised paradigm includes almost four times as much novel associations as the previous paradigm, we expected the percent of correct recognition to be lower than the previous paradigm, however to remain above chance (25%) performance for both tasks. We expected performance on the EE task to be mediated by the dominant episodic memory system, and as such we expected memory performance in the this task to be higher than memory performance in the FM task, which is hypothesized to be mediated by FM learning processes less dominant in adulthood.
FM task performance We hypothesized that adults would succefuly perform FM as would be demonstrated by the following measures in both versions of the study: RT's The RT's for choosing the target picture in novel target trials would be slower than the reaction times for choosing the target picture in familiar target trials. Accuracy Participants would correctly choose the novel target pictures as the referents for the novel labels in the novel target trials at an above chance (50%) level rate. Memory performance Because the revised paradigm includes almost four times as much novel associations as the previous paradigm, we expected the percent of correct recognition to be lower than the previous paradigm, however to remain above chance (25%) performance for both tasks. We expected performance on the EE task to be mediated by the dominant episodic memory system, and as such we expected memory performance in the this task to be higher than memory performance in the FM task, which is hypothesized to be mediated by FM learning processes less dominant in adulthood.
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