TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2003//
TI  - Verbal overshadowing of multiple face and car recognition: effects of within- versus across-category verbal descriptions
JO  - Applied cognitive psychology
A1  - Brown, Charity
A1  - Lloyd-Jones, Toby J.
SP  - 183
EP  - 201
VL  - 17
IS  - 2
N2  - We present four experiments examining 'verbal overshadowing' (the phenomenon that verbally describing a stimulus can interfere with subsequent recognition of that stimulus) using a new multiple stimuli presentation paradigm. Participants are exposed to 12 to-be-remembered stimuli (faces or cars) and then describe (or not, in the control condition) a related stimulus (a 13th face or car). Subsequently, participants have to discriminate the original 12 stimuli from 12 distracters (in a 'yes/no' recognition decision). Verbal overshadowing occurs for both accuracy and response times for both face and car recognition, when participants have previously described a face. When participants describe a car prior to recognition, however, verbal overshadowing does not occur. We argue that (1) the paradigm provides a new tool for studying verbal overshadowing and (2) verbal overshadowing is not 'semantic category-bound' (i.e. limited to describing stimuli within the same semantic category). We interpret these findings within a 'transfer-inappropriate retrieval' framework (Schooler et al., 1997). Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0888-4080
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/acp.861
ID  - ref1
ER  -