Picture recognition without picture identification: a method for assessing the role of perceptual information in familiarity-based picture recognition.
The present study examined the claim that unidentifiable test-pictures are processed and recognized on a perceptual, as opposed to a conceptual, level. Using an extension of the recognition without identification paradigm (e.g., Cleary, A. M. & Greene, R. L. (2000). Recognition without identification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 1063-1069; Peynircioglu, Z. F. (1990). A feeling-of-recognition without identification. Journal of Memory and Language, 29, 493-500), it was observed that when test-pictures were unidentifiable during a masked perceptual identification task, old-new discrimination occurred when the study-list consisted of pictures (Experiments 1-3), but not when the study-list consisted of picture names (Experiment 2) or when picture exemplars served as test-cues (Experiment 3). Results provide converging evidence that a study-test perceptual match is needed for the episodic recognition of unidentified test-pictures. Implications for the present paradigm as a tool for examining the role of perceptual information in recognition-familiarity are discussed.
Langley
Moses M
MM
Department of Psychology, W112 Lagomarcino Hall, Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, IA 50011-3180, United States. mlangley@iastate.edu
Cleary
Anne M
AM
Kostic
Bogdan N
BN
Woods
Joshua A
JA
D001288:Attention; D003210:Concept Formation; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D011939:Mental Recall; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D011601:Psychophysics; D011930:Reaction Time