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Tu, Hsiao-Wei; Diana, Rachel A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
In recognition memory, "recollection" is defined as retrieval of the context associated with an event, whereas "familiarity" is defined as retrieval based on item strength alone. Recent studies have shown that conventional recollection-based tasks, in which context details are manipulated for source memory assessment at test,…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Memory, Recall (Psychology), Cognitive Processes
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Diana, Rachel A.; Yonelinas, Andrew P.; Ranganath, Charan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
Performance on tests of source memory is typically based on recollection of contextual information associated with an item. However, recent neuroimaging results have suggested that the perirhinal cortex, a region thought to support familiarity-based item recognition, may support source attributions if source information is encoded as a feature of…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Memory, Neurological Organization, Brain Hemisphere Functions