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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Human Memory

Background:

  • Associative recognition tasks are crucial for understanding memory.
  • Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses have been used to infer the nature of recollection.
  • Previous ROC analyses suggested recollection might be a threshold process.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether associative recollection is a threshold or continuous process.
  • To re-evaluate the role of signal detection theory in associative recognition.
  • To clarify the nature of the variable underlying associative recognition performance.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Manipulated study strength of word pairs and analyzed ROC and Z-ROC curves.
  • Experiment 2: Introduced an initial old-new recognition phase before associative recognition.
  • Utilized remember-know procedures and cued recall tests.

Main Results:

  • Strengthening word pairs at study resulted in a curvilinear ROC and linear Z-ROC, aligning with signal detection theory.
  • Removing unrecognized pairs in Experiment 2 also yielded curvilinear ROCs and linear Z-ROCs.
  • Increased recollection correlated with more curvilinear ROCs.

Conclusions:

  • Associative recollection appears to be a continuous process, not a threshold process.
  • Signal detection theory can effectively model recollection, especially when accounting for noise.
  • The curvilinear Z-ROC often seen in associative recognition may stem from noise or item recognition failure.