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COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages 119-143Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-020-00854-w
Keywords
Event-related potentials; Recollection; Familiarity; Priming; Cued recall
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [A7459]
- National Institute of Health [1 L30 NS112849-01]
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- CSUSB Office of Academic Research Mini-Grants Program
- CSUSB Office of Student Research Faculty Assigned Time Grant Program
- CSUSB Office of Sponsored Programs Faculty Summer Research Fellowship
- CSUSB Faculty Senate Assigned Time for Exceptional Service
- CSUSB OSR Faculty-Student Research Grant
- KBR's Human Health and Performance Contract through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NNJ15HK11B]
- CSUSB Student Success Initiative's Innovative Scholars Fund & Culminating Project Fellowships
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Contrary to the conventional assumption, recognition of recalled words in cued-recall paradigms may not always be successful, as recognition failures can occur even with cues present. Successfully recalled words recognized at subsequent stages are influenced by recollection and familiarity, while recognition failures may be driven by semantic priming and implicit cognitive processes.
When people can successfully recall a studied word, they should be able to recognize it as having been studied. In cued-recall paradigms, however, participants sometimes correctly recall words in the presence of strong semantic cues but then fail to recognize those words as actually having been studied. Although the conditions necessary to produce this unusual effect are known, the underlying neural correlates have not been investigated. Across five experiments, involving both behavioral and electrophysiological methods (EEG), we investigated the cognitive and neural processes that underlie recognition failures. Experiments 1 and 2 showed behaviorally that assuming that recalled items can be recognized in cued-recall paradigms is a flawed assumption, because recognition failures occur in the presence of cues, regardless of whether those failures are measured. With event-related potentials (ERPs), Experiments 3 and 4 revealed that successfully recalled words that are recognized are driven by recollection at recall and then by a combination of recollection and familiarity at ensuing recognition. In contrast, recognition failures did not show that memory signature and may instead be driven by semantic priming at recall and followed at recognition stages by negative-going ERP effects consistent with implicit processes, such as repetition fluency. These results demonstrate that recall - long-characterized as predominantly reflecting recollection-based processing in episodic memory - may at times also be served by a confluence of implicit cognitive processes.
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