Title

Picture recognition without picture identification: A method for assessing the role of perceptual information in familiarity-based picture recognition

Abstract

The present study examined the claim that unidentifiable test-pictures are processed and recognized on a perceptual, as opposed to a conceptual, level. Using an extension of the recognition without identification paradigm (e.g., Cleary, A. M. & Greene, R. L. (2000). Recognition without identification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 1063-1069; Peynircioglu, Z. F. (1990). A feeling-of-recognition without identification. Journal of Memory and Language, 29, 493-500), it was observed that when test-pictures were unidentifiable during a masked perceptual identification task, old-new discrimination occurred when the study-list consisted of pictures (Experiments 1-3), but not when the study-list consisted of picture names (Experiment 2) or when picture exemplars served as test-cues (Experiment 3). Results provide converging evidence that a study-test perceptual match is needed for the episodic recognition of unidentified test-pictures. Implications for the present paradigm as a tool for examining the role of perceptual information in recognition-familiarity are discussed. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Document Type

Article

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2007.03.001

Keywords

Dual-process, Episodic trace hypothesis, Familiarity, Old-new discrimination, Perceptual familiarity, Picture recognition, Recognition memory, Recognition without identification, Recognition-familiarity

Publication Date

1-1-2008

Journal Title

Acta Psychologica

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