Frequency effects in recognition memory: Evidence for a multiprocess detection model?

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Smith ◽  
Marty W. Niewiadomski
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Memory ◽  
Frequency Effects ◽  
Detection Model

Phrases Don't Behave Like Words: Phrase Frequency Effects in Recognition Memory

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cassandra L. Jacobs ◽  
Gary S. Dell ◽  
Aaron S. Benjamin ◽  
Colin Bannard
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Memory ◽  
Frequency Effects

scholarly journals The unequal variance signal-detection model of recognition memory: Investigating the encoding variability hypothesis

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (8) ◽  
pp. 1242-1260
Author(s):  
Rory W Spanton ◽  
Christopher J Berry
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Memory ◽  
Signal Detection ◽  
Psychological Explanation ◽  
Memory Strength ◽  
Unequal Variance ◽  
Detection Model ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Encoding Variability ◽  
Strength Variance ◽  
Back Task

Despite the unequal variance signal-detection (UVSD) model’s prominence as a model of recognition memory, a psychological explanation for the unequal variance assumption has yet to be verified. According to the encoding variability hypothesis, old item memory strength variance (σo) is greater than that of new items because items are incremented by variable, rather than fixed, amounts of strength at encoding. Conditions that increase encoding variability should therefore result in greater estimates of σo. We conducted three experiments to test this prediction. In Experiment 1, encoding variability was manipulated by presenting items for a fixed or variable (normally distributed) duration at study. In Experiment 2, we used an attentional manipulation whereby participants studied items while performing an auditory one-back task in which distractors were presented at fixed or variable intervals. In Experiment 3, participants studied stimuli with either high or low variance in word frequency. Across experiments, estimates of σo were unaffected by our attempts to manipulate encoding variability, even though the manipulations weakly affected subsequent recognition. Instead, estimates of σo tended to be positively correlated with estimates of the mean difference in strength between new and studied items ( d), as might be expected if σo generally scales with d. Our results show that it is surprisingly hard to successfully manipulate encoding variability, and they provide a signpost for others seeking to test the encoding variability hypothesis.

scholarly journals Erratum to: Feature frequency effects in recognition memory

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (7) ◽  
pp. 1324-1324
Author(s):  
K. J. Malmberg ◽  
M. Steyvers ◽  
J. D. Stephens ◽  
R. M. Shiffrin
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Memory ◽  
Frequency Effects ◽  
Feature Frequency

scholarly journals Familiarity or Conceptual Priming: Event-related Potentials in Name Recognition

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg Stenberg ◽  
Johan Hellman ◽  
Mikael Johansson ◽  
Ingmar Rosén
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Memory ◽  
Memory Task ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
Behavioral Experiment ◽  
Operating Characteristics ◽  
Conceptual Priming ◽  
Detection Model ◽  
Recent Interest ◽  
Related Potentials

Recent interest has been drawn to the separate components of recognition memory, as studied by event-related potentials (ERPs). In ERPs, recollection is usually accompanied by a late, parietal positive deflection. An earlier, frontal component has been suggested to be a counterpart, accompanying recognition by familiarity. However, this component, the FN400, has alternatively been suggested to reflect a form of implicit memory, conceptual priming. The present study examined the ERP components of recognition memory using an episodic memory task with a stimulus material consisting of names, half of which were famous. Along a different dimension, the names varied in how rare or common they were. These dimensions, frequency and fame, exerted powerful effects on memory accuracy, and dissociated the two recognition processes, such that frequency gave rise to familiarity and fame fostered recollection, when the receiver operating characteristics data were analyzed with Yonelinas' dual-process signal detection model. The ERPs corresponded fully to the behavioral data because frequency affected the frontal component exclusively, and fame affected the parietal component exclusively. Moreover, a separate behavioral experiment showed that conceptual priming was sensitive to fame, but not to frequency. Our data therefore indicate that the FN400 varies jointly with familiarity, but independently of conceptual priming.

Recognition Memory for Self-Relevant Personality-Trait Words

2009 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Nieznański
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Memory ◽  
Signal Detection ◽  
Response Bias ◽  
Personality Trait ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
The Self ◽  
Rating Task ◽  
Detection Model ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Trait Words

Two studies based on a signal detection model of recognition memory are presented. Both studies investigated detection and response bias in the recognition of personality-trait words with respect to their relation to the self. Study 1 employed a yes-no task in which participants were to recognize trait adjectives. Study 2 employed a rating task in which participants declared their confidence with respect to whether a noun or an adjective had been presented. After the recognition task, participants selected personality-trait words that described them and ones that described other people. The results indicated a stronger tendency to say “old” for self-descriptive than for non-self-descriptive adjectives and nouns. Study 2 suggested that self-descriptive nouns are better detected than non-self-descriptive nouns.

Word-Imagery Effects on Recollection and Familiarity in Recognition Memory

2005 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 716-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ward O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Memory ◽  
Signal Detection ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
Significant Enhancement ◽  
Detection Model ◽  
Familiarity In Recognition Memory ◽  
Independent Analysis ◽  
French Speaking

The Remember/Know procedure was used to investigate the effects of word imageability on recognition memory. An experiment, using French-speaking undergraduate students (17 women and 3 men), replicated Dewhurst and Conway's 1994 finding that rated imageability significantly increased accurate Remember responses but not Know responses when analyzed in the traditional way, assuming that the response types are mutually exclusive. Data were also analyzed using the Yonelinas, et al. 1998 dual-process signal-detection model, for estimating recollection and familiarity while assuming that Remember and Know responses are independent. Analysis indicated significant enhancement of imageability for estimates of both recollection and familiarity. This was interpreted as meaning that imageability enhanced both item-specific and contextual information associated with studied words.

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