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Measuring memory is harder than you think: How to avoid problematic measurement practices in memory research

2021-05-21

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<p>We argue that critical areas of memory research rely on problematic measurement practices and provide concrete suggestions to improve the situation. In particular, we highlight the prevalence of memory studies that use tasks (like the “old/new” task: “have you seen this item before? yes/no”) where quantifying performance is deeply dependent on counterfactual reasoning that depends on the (unknowable) distributi...

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Literature Corpus work: 6722942a-4c18-5514-ad26-3672f5cad07d
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/qd75k

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