Deese–Roediger–McDermott paradigm
a laboratory memory task used to study false recall. It is based on a report in 1959 that, after presentation of a list of related words (e.g., snore, rest, dream, awake), participants mistakenly recalled an unpresented but strongly associated item (e.g., sleep). Called the Deese paradigm after its original investigator, U.S. psychologist James Deese (1921–1999), it has since been renamed to reflect renewed research into the technique by U.S. cognitive psychologists Henry L. Roediger III (1947– ) and Kathleen B. McDermott (1968– ).