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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
Volume 30, Issue 2, Pages 540-549Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.30.2.540
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E. Hirshman, J. Fisher, T. Henthorn, J. Arndt, and A. Passannante (2002) found that Midazolam disrupts the mirror-patterned word-frequency effect for recognition memory by reversing the typical hit-rate advantage for low-frequency words. They noted that this result is consistent with dual-process accounts (e.g., R. C. Atkinson & J. F. Juola, 1974; G. Mandler, 1980; A. P. Yonelinas, 1994) of the word-frequency effect for recognition memory (S. Joordens & W. E. Hockley, 2000; L. M. Reder et al., 2000). The present authors show that this finding is also consistent with a variety of single-process, retrieving-effectively-from-memory (REM) models (R. M. Shiffrin & M. Steyvers, 1997), the simplest of which assumes that Midazolam decreases the accuracy with which memory traces are stored. These findings therefore do not discriminate between single- and dual-process models of recognition memory.
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