{"pk":25901,"title":"Distinguishing the Recent Past from the Complicated Present in Recognition\nMemory","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In the study of verbal memory, a critical question is the extent to which recognition is influenced by the prior contexts\nin which items have appeared (‘context noise’), as opposed to competition from other items present within the immediate task\ncontext (‘item noise’). In a standard recognition task, subjects study a list of words, and at test, discriminate between studied\nitems (targets) and novel items (foils). To disentangle the contributions of context and item noise, we systematically manipulated\nboth the contexts in which critical items had been encountered prior to study, and the composition of the recognition list,\nvarying semantic similarity among items. Our results suggest independent contributions of each factor, with word frequency\nand temporal lag as important mediating variables. These findings can be interpreted within both associative learning and\nmemory paradigms","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/043997fc","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Melody","middle_name":"","last_name":"Dye","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indiana University","department":""},{"first_name":"Rich","middle_name":"","last_name":"Shiffrin","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indiana University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25901/galley/15525/download/"}]}