Components of episodic memory: the contribution of recollection and familiarity
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The examination of recognition memory confidence judgements indicates that there are two separate components or processes underlying episodic memory. A model that accounts for these results is described in which a recollection process and a familiarity process are assumed to contribute to recognition memory performance. Recollection is assumed to reflect a threshold process whereby qualitative information about the study event is retrieved, whereas familiarity reflects a classical signal-detection process whereby items exceeding a familiarity response criterion are accepted as having been studied. Evidence from cognitive, neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies indicate that the model is in agreement with the existing recognition results, and indicate that recollection and familiarity are behaviourally, neurally and phenomenologically distinct memory retrieval processes.
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Familiarity-based recognition taps to a greater extent implicit components of memories than recollection.
“Improving the effects of early SWS-rich sleep on declarative memory appeared to be overall more consistent with free (or cued) recall measures than with recognition measures of memory (265, 326, 667, 966; see Ref. 297, for a review), possibly reflecting that unlike recollection, familiarity based recognition taps to a greater extent implicit components of these memories (1343,1344).”
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- Authors
- Yonelinas, A. P.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Davis (US)
- Corresponding author
- Yonelinas, Andrew P.
- ORCID
- Yonelinas, Andrew P.
- Venue
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 2001-09-29
- Volume
- 356
- Issue
- 1413
- Pages
- 1363-1374
- ISSN
- 0962-8436 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-2970
- OpenAlex
- W2032338157
- Cited by
- 547
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 0.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Locations
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH 59352, R01MH059352)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Keywords
- episodic memory, recollection, familiarity, recognition memory, confidence judgments, signal detection theory, memory retrieval, memory models, neuropsychology of memory, neuroimaging of memory
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Models, Psychological, Mental Recall, Recognition, Psychology
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