AUTHOR=Boutet Isabelle , Dawod Khalil , Chiasson FĂ©lix , Brown Olivier , Collin Charles TITLE=Perceptual Similarity Can Drive Age-Related Elevation of False Recognition JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=10 YEAR=2019 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00743 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00743 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Older adults consistently show elevated rates of false recognition of new items that are related to studied items. This finding has been largely attributed to a greater tendency for older adults to rely on conceptual gist during memory recognition tasks. However, perceptual factors may also be implicated considering that related items are not only conceptually but also perceptually similar. While some findings do suggest that age-related increases in false recognitions can be driven by perceptual factors, little is known about the nature and circumstances under which these factors operate. To address this gap, we measured basic visual ability as well as false recognition for four different image categories (upright faces, inverted faces, chairs, houses) in younger (