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Fluency and disfluency dissociate FN400 and N400 ERP components during recognition.

P Andrew Leynes¹, Christian Noguchi¹

¹The College of New Jersey, United States.

Brain and Cognition

|April 27, 2026

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Masked priming influences recognition memory familiarity by altering processing fluency. Event-Related Potential (ERP) analysis reveals distinct components in the 300-500ms window, supporting dual familiarity models.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Psychology

Background:

Masked priming affects recognition memory familiarity through fluency manipulation.
These fluency effects are associated with Event-Related Potential (ERP) activity between 300-500ms post-stimulus.

Purpose of the Study:

Reanalyze existing datasets to assess baseline period effects on ERPs.
Investigate the presence of distinct ERP components within the 300-500ms interval.
Examine the impact of orthographically similar (OS) primes on ERP measures.

Main Methods:

Reanalysis of multiple previously published datasets.
Conducting a novel study using orthographically similar primes.
Analyzing Event-Related Potential (ERP) data, focusing on the 300-500ms time window.

Main Results:

The baseline period showed minimal impact on ERP measurements.
Orthographically similar primes did not induce disfluency effects without fluency-inducing primes.
Evidence from three datasets indicated distinct prime effects and topographies between 300-400ms and 400-500ms.

Conclusions:

Fluency manipulations impact recognition memory familiarity.
Distinct ERP components within the 300-500ms interval suggest separate familiarity processes.
Findings support models differentiating relative and absolute familiarity (Mecklinger & Bader, 2020).