Journal
CLINICAL EEG AND NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 37, Issue 4, Pages 292-299Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/155005940603700406
Keywords
event-related potentials; familiarity; old/new effect; recognition memory
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Event-related potentials are a valuable tool for the study of human memory function. This selective review provides a brief introduction in models of recognition memory and then describes how ERPs can be used to investigate familiarity memory, an acontextual form of remembering that can be distinguished from the recollection of detailed information of prior events. ERP studies on the mid-frontal old/new effect, the putative electrophysiological correlate of familiarity memory are reviewed. It will be illustrated how familiarity memory is reflected in this effect, how it can electrophysiologically be dissociated from other forms of memory and which brain systems mediate this form of remembering. Recent studies will be reviewed that illustrate that familiarity is not only restricted to single items but can also support the retrieval of associative information.
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