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JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE
Volume 57, Issue 1, Pages 81-100Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2007.03.003
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noncriterial recollection; recognition; recollection; familiarity; aging; remember-know; receiver-operating characteristic; partial recollection
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Noncriterial recollection (ncR) is recollection of details that are irrelevant to task demands. It has been shown to elevate familiarity estimates and to be functionally equivalent to familiarity in the process dissociation procedure [Yonelinas, A. P., & Jacoby, L. L. (1996). Noncriterial recollection: Familiarity as automatic, irrelevant recollection. Consciousness and Cognition, 5, 131-141.]. However, Toth and Parks [Toth, J. P., & Parks, C. M. (2006). Effects of age on estimated familiarity in the process-dissociation procedure: The role of noncriterial recollection. Memory & Cognition, 34, 527-537.] found Do ncR in older adults, and hypothesized that this absence was related to older adults' criterial recollection deficit. To test this hypothesis, as well as whether ncR is functionally equivalent to familiarity and increases the subjective experience of familiarity, remember-know and confidence-rating methods were used to estimate recollection and familiarity with young adults, young adults in a divided-attention condition (Experiment 1), and older adults. Supporting Toth and Parks' hypothesis, ncR was found in all groups, but was consistently larger for groups with higher criterial recollection. Response distributions and receiver-operating characteristics revealed further similarities to criterial recollection and suggested that neither the experience nor usefulness of familiarity was enhanced by ncR. Overall, the results suggest that ncR does not differ fundamentally from criterial recollection. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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