Dissociations between familiarity processes in explicit recognition and implicit perceptual memory.
Dual-process theories of recognition posit that a perceptual familiarity process contributes to both explicit recognition and implicit perceptual memory. This putative single familiarity process has been indexed by inclusion-exclusion, remember-know, and repetition priming measures. The present studies examined whether these measures identify a common familiarity process. Familiarity-based explicit recognition (as indexed by the inclusion-exclusion and the independence remember-know procedures) increased with conceptual processing. In contrast, implicit word-identification priming and familiarity-based word-stem completion (as indexed by inclusion-exclusion) increased with study-test perceptual similarity. These dissociations indicate that familiarity-based explicit recognition may be more sensitive to conceptual than to perceptual processing and is functionally distinct from the perceptual familiarity process mediating implicit perceptual memory.
Wagner
A D
AD
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, California 94305-2130, USA. wagner@psych.stanford.edu
Gabrieli
J D
JD
Verfaellie
M
M
D000328:Adult; D001245:Association Learning; D001288:Attention; D001364:Awareness; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D014706:Verbal Learning