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Basics of Multivariate Analysis in Neuroimaging Data
Published on: July 24, 2010
Recognition and source memory as multivariate decision processes
1Psychology Department, Pomona College, Claremont, CA 91711, USA. wbanks@pomona.edu
Abstract:
Recognition memory, source memory, and exclusion performance are three important domains of study in memory, each with its own findings, it specific theoretical developments, and its separate research literature. It is proposed here that results from all three domains can be treated with a single analytic model. This article shows how to generate a comprehensive memory representation based on multidimensional signal detection theory and how to make predictions for each of these paradigms using decision axes drawn through the space. The detection model is simpler than the comparable multinomial model, it is more easily generalizable, and it does not make threshold assumptions. An experiment using the same memory set for all three tasks demonstrates the analysis and tests the model. The results show that some seemingly complex relations between the paradigms derive from an underlying simplicity of structure.
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