[Explicit memory for type font of words in source monitoring and recognition tasks].
We investigated whether people can consciously remember type fonts of words by methods of examining explicit memory; source-monitoring and old/new-recognition. We set matched, non-matched, and non-studied conditions between the study and the test words using two kinds of type fonts; Gothic and MARU. After studying words in one way of encoding, semantic or physical, subjects in a source-monitoring task made a three way discrimination between new words, Gothic words, and MARU words (Exp. 1). Subjects in an old/new-recognition task indicated whether test words were previously presented or not (Exp. 2). We compared the source judgments with old/new recognition data. As a result, these data showed conscious recollection for type font of words on the source monitoring task and dissociation between source monitoring and old/new recognition performance.
Hatanaka
Yoshiko
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Department of Psychology, Jin-ai University, Ohte-cho, Takefu 915-8586.
Fujita
Tetsuya
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D000328:Adult; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory