James Deese

James Deese

James Deese was a psychologist whose 1959 list-learning study was the model for the 1995 experiments on false recall of words that were never presented.

Who they are

The work of James Deese reaches this site through the sources listed below. On this site the name is tied to False Memory From Associated Words.

Key papers

See the sources listed in the articles named below.

Key ideas

False Memory From Associated Words: Recalling and recognising a word that was never presented because the studied words all relate to it.

Sources

  1. Roediger, H. L., & McDermott, K. B. (1995). Creating false memories: Remembering words not presented in lists. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21(4), 803-814.