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phenomenon > memory phenomenon > error-speed effect

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error-speed effect  

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  • A memory phenomenon observed when fast errors in a first binary recognition task are associated with a lower response accuracy in a subsequent two-alternative forced-choice task containing the erroneously judged items of the first task.

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  • • Starns, J. J., Dubé, C., & Frelinger, M. E. (2018). The speed of memory errors shows the influence of misleading information: Testing the diffusion model and discrete-state models. Cognitive Psychology, 102, 21–40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2018.01.001

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: open

  • • Voormann, A., Meyer-Grant, C. G., Rothe-Wulf, A., & Klauer, K. C. (2024). Do moments of inattention during study cause the error-speed effect for targets in recognition-memory tasks? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 31(5), 2180–2188. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02475-7

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: open

    • Dataset reference: Voormann, A., Meyer-Grant, C. G., Rothe-Wulf, A., & Klauer, K. C. (2024, February 5). Error-speed Effect - lack of attention? https://osf.io/kv5j8
  • • Voormann, A., Rothe-Wulf, A., Meyer-Grant, C. G., & Klauer, K. C. (2025). Sometimes memory misleads: Variants of the error-speed effect strengthen the evidence for systematically misleading memory signals in recognition memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 32(1), 294–305. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02534-z

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: open

    • Dataset reference: Voormann, A., Rothe-Wulf, A., Meyer-Grant, C. G., Schmitt, P., & Klauer, K. C. (2024, June 5). Error speed effect - switching tasks. https://osf.io/3qzwh
  • • Voormann, A., Rothe-Wulf, A., Starns, J. J., & Klauer, K. C. (2021). Does speed of recognition predict two-alternative forced-choice performance? Replicating and extending Starns, Dubé, and Frelinger (2018). Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(1), 122–134. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820963033

    • Document type: empirical study

    , replication

    • Access: closed

    • Dataset reference: Voormann, A., Rothe-Wulf, A., Starns, J. J., & Klauer, K. C. (2020, June 7). Does Speed of Recognition predict Two-Alternatives Forced-Choice Performance? Replicating and Extending Starns, Dubé, and Frelinger (2018). https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/EJUCX

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  • Frank Arnould

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