Host: The Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology
This study aims to investigate how delay effects on false recall occurred in our participants of Japanese-dominant bilinguals. We used 6 lists of 15 Japanese words. Each list consisted of 15 words that could easily make participants associate with non-presented lure word respectively. After presenting each list, immediate recall task was conducted for 2 minutes. Delayed recall task was conducted one week later. As a result, list words were recalled more in the immediate tests than in delayed test. On the contrary, critical lures were recalled more in delayed test than in the immediate test. We discuss about how Japanese participants process and associate Japanese words. Furthermore, we show the differences and similarities of results in Japanese and in English (Kawasaki & Inoue, 2005). The characteristics of language processing in Japanese-dominant bilinguals are also discussed based on the results of our false memory experiments.
