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Ensor, Tyler M.; Surprenant, Aimée M.; Neath, Ian; Hockley, William E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
In recognition, context effects often manifest as higher hit and false-alarm rates to probes tested in an old context compared with probes tested in a new context; sometimes, this concordant effect is accompanied by a discrimination advantage. According to the cue-overload account of context effects (Rutherford, 2004), context acts like any other…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Cues, Memory, Recognition (Psychology)
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Pereverseff, Rosemary S.; Bodner, Glen E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Based on the classic distinction between semantic and episodic memory, people answer general-knowledge questions by querying their semantic memory. And yet, an appeal of trivia games is the variety of memory experiences they arouse--including the recollection of episodic details. We report the first in-depth exploration of the memory states that…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Knowledge Level, Familiarity, Memory
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Wammes, Jeffrey D.; Meade, Melissa E.; Fernandes, Myra A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Drawing a picture of to-be-remembered information substantially boosts memory performance in free-recall tasks. In the current work, we sought to test the notion that drawing confers its benefit to memory performance by creating a detailed recollection of the encoding context. In Experiments 1 and 2, we demonstrated that for both pictures and…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Recall (Psychology), Memory, Cognitive Processes
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Bowles, Ben; Köhler, Stefan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Situations in which the name of a person is perceived as familiar but does not trigger recall of pertinent semantic knowledge are common in daily life. In current connectionist models of person recognition, such "familiar-only" experiences reflect supra-threshold activation at person-identity nodes but subthreshold activation at nodes…
Descriptors: Semantics, Familiarity, Naming, Recognition (Psychology)
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Ozubko, Jason D.; Fugelsang, Jonathan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
The "illusion of truth" is traditionally described as the increase in perceived validity of statements when they are repeated (Hasher, Goldstein, & Toppino, 1977). However, subsequent work has demonstrated that the effect can arise due to the increased familiarity or fluency afforded by repetition and not necessarily to repetition…
Descriptors: Memory, Familiarity, Validity, Experimental Psychology
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Poppenk, J.; Kohler, S.; Moscovitch, M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Reports of superior memory for novel relative to familiar material have figured prominently in recent theories of memory. However, such "novelty effects" are incongruous with long-standing observations that familiar items are remembered better. In 2 experiments, we explored whether this discrepancy was explained by differences in the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Memory, Proverbs, Familiarity