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Conjoint recognition and phantom recollection.

C J Brainerd1, R Wright, V F Reyna

  • 1Department of Special Education, Rehabilitation, and School Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA. brainerd@u.arizona.edu

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition
|April 11, 2001
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A new method directly measures phantom recollection, a type of false memory. This illusory conscious experience, rather than familiarity, significantly contributes to memory errors in recognition tasks.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Memory Research
  • Consciousness Studies

Background:

  • Illusory conscious experience, or phantom recollection, is a phenomenon where individuals feel they recall unstudied information.
  • Traditional methods rely on subjective introspective reports, which can be unreliable for measuring phantom recollection.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate a novel methodology for directly measuring phantom recollection from recognition responses.
  • To investigate the contributions of phantom recollection and familiarity to false recognition in different experimental paradigms.

Main Methods:

  • Developed and applied a new methodology to extract phantom recollection measurements directly from recognition data.
  • Utilized the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm and a conventional recognition paradigm across three experiments.

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Main Results:

  • The new methodology confirmed that both phantom recollection and familiarity contribute to false recognition.
  • Phantom recollection was identified as the primary driver of false recognition for critical distractors in the DRM paradigm and other distractor types.
  • Variability in false recognition was strongly correlated with individual differences in phantom recollection.

Conclusions:

  • Phantom recollection is a significant contributor to false recognition, often exceeding the influence of familiarity.
  • The new direct measurement method offers a more objective approach to studying illusory conscious experience.
  • Findings support fuzzy-trace theory's hypothesis that phantom recollection is a gist-based process, and this process can be experimentally manipulated.