title: Familiarity, but not recollection, supports the between-subject production effect in recognition memory.
abstract: Five experiments explored the basis of the between-subjects production effect in recognition memory as represented by differences in the recollection and familiarity of produced (read aloud) and nonproduced (read silently) words. Using remember-know judgments (Experiment 1b) and a dual-process signal-detection approach applied to confidence ratings (Experiments 2b and 3), we observed that production influences familiarity but not recollection when manipulated between-subjects. This is in contrast to within-subject designs, which reveal a clear effect of production on both recollection and familiarity (Experiments 1a and 2a). Our findings resolve contention concerning apparent design effects: Whereas the within-subject production effect is subserved by separable recollective- and familiarity-based components, the between-subjects production effect is subserved by the familiarity-based component alone. Our findings support a role for the relative distinctiveness of production as a means of guiding recognition judgments (at least when manipulated within-subjects), but we also propose that production influences the strength of produced items, explaining the persistence of the effect in between-subjects designs. (PsycINFO Database Record
authors.affiliation: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.
authors.forename: Jonathan M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Fawcett
authors.affiliation: Rotman Research Institute.
authors.forename: Jason D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Ozubko
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D011932:Reading; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult