Modeling the conscious correlates of recognition memory: reflections on the remember-know paradigm.
Understanding how memory processes contribute to the conscious experience of memory is central to contemporary cognitive psychology. Recently, many investigators (e.g., Gardiner, 1988) have examined the remember-know paradigm to understand the conscious correlates of recognition memory. A variety of studies have demonstrated that variables have different effects on remember and know responses, and these findings have been interpreted in the context of dual-process models of recognition memory. This paper presents a single-process model of the remember-know paradigm, emphasizing the dependence of remember and know judgments on a set of common underlying processes (e.g., criterion setting). We use this model to demonstrate how a single-process model can give rise to the functional dissociations presented in the remember-know literature. We close by detailing procedures for testing our model and describing how those tests may facilitate the development of dual-process models.
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Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27599-3270, USA. elliot@memlab.psych.unc.edu
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D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology*; D003210:Concept Formation / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D012647:Self-Assessment