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Auditory recognition without identification.

Anne M Cleary1, Moriah M Winfield, Bogdan Kostic

  • 1Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA. anne.cleary@colostate.edu

Memory & Cognition
|February 13, 2008
PubMed
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Participants can recognize recently heard words even when they cannot identify them. This auditory recognition without identification phenomenon was demonstrated even with changing voices and visual study lists.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Auditory Perception
  • Memory Research

Background:

  • Prior research established 'recognition without identification' in the visual domain.
  • This phenomenon demonstrates memory for stimuli that cannot be consciously identified.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if 'recognition without identification' extends to the auditory modality.
  • To explore the conditions under which auditory recognition without identification occurs.

Main Methods:

  • Participants studied spoken words.
  • Test items were spoken words embedded in white noise, hindering identification.
  • Participants rated the likelihood of having studied each word.

Main Results:

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  • Participants accurately discriminated between studied and unstudied words despite inability to identify them.
  • This effect persisted despite voice changes (male to female) and visual study lists.
  • The phenomenon was observed even when phoneme information was degraded.

Conclusions:

  • 'Recognition without identification' is a robust phenomenon in auditory memory.
  • Auditory memory traces may contain detailed phonemic information, supporting recognition even when identification fails.