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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Human Memory Research

Background:

  • Episodic associations are typically recollective.
  • Unitized stimuli may involve familiarity in associative recognition.
  • Intradomain associations are more readily unitized than interdomain ones.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the roles of familiarity and recollection in associative recognition.
  • To compare memory processes for unimodal versus cross-modal associations.
  • To examine event-related potential (ERP) correlates of associative recognition.

Main Methods:

  • Participants learned unimodal (picture-picture) and cross-modal (picture-sound) associations.
  • Associative recognition was tested by discriminating intact from recombined pairs.
  • Electroencephalography (EEG) was used to record event-related potentials (ERPs).

Main Results:

  • Unimodal associative recognition showed familiarity-related frontal ERP deflections.
  • Recollection-related posterior ERPs were observed for both unimodal and cross-modal tasks.
  • Familiarity-based retrieval was specific to unimodal associations.

Conclusions:

  • Retrieval of unimodal associations can be supported by familiarity.
  • Recollective processes are necessary for cross-modal association retrieval.
  • Familiarity and recollection are dissociable processes in associative memory.