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  • Neuroscience
  • Memory Research

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  • Familiarity-based processes, like processing fluency, are known to affect item recognition memory.
  • Traditional models of source memory suggest limited influence of familiarity, but recent studies indicate priming-induced fluency can impact source judgments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between processing fluency and the accuracy of source memory decisions.
  • To determine if familiarity-based processes contribute to the accuracy of recalling memory sources.

Main Methods:

  • Participants studied words with distinct source attributes.
  • During testing, words were progressively demasked, and participants made old/new, source memory, and confidence judgments.
  • Response times (RTs) from word identification served as a fluency measure, analyzed against recognition, source accuracy, and confidence.

Main Results:

  • Identification RTs were significantly faster for trials with accurate source retrieval compared to inaccurate retrieval.
  • Faster processing fluency was associated with more accurate source memory performance.
  • Findings align with the hypothesis that familiarity-based processes influence source memory judgments.

Conclusions:

  • Processing fluency, a measure of familiarity, is demonstrably linked to source memory accuracy.
  • These results challenge traditional views by highlighting the role of familiarity in source memory.
  • Familiarity-based processes appear to play a significant role in the accuracy of source memory decisions.