Distinguishing between the success and precision of recollection
| Autor: | Iain Malcolm Harlow, Andrew P. Yonelinas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male Adolescent Memory Episodic Mnemonic 050105 experimental psychology Article 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Recollection Memory Clinical Research Humans Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Episodic memory General Psychology Recall 05 social sciences Neurosciences Reproducibility of Results Experimental Psychology Precision Good Health and Well Being Mental Recall Female Cognitive Sciences Episodic Social psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Memory (Hove, England), vol 24, iss 1 |
| Popis: | Recollection reflects the retrieval of complex qualitative information about prior events. Recently, Harlow and Donaldson (2013) developed a method for separating the probability of recollection success from the precision of the mnemonic information retrieved. In the current study, we ask if these properties are separable on the basis of subjective reports – are participants aware of these two aspects of recollection, and can they reliably report on them? Participants studied words paired with a location on a circle outline, and at test recalled the location for a given word as accurately as possible. Additionally, participants provided separate subjective ratings of recollection confidence and recollection precision. The results indicated that participants either recollected the target location with considerable (but variable) precision, or they retrieved no accurate location information at all. Importantly, recollection confidence reliably predicted whether locations were recollected, while precision ratings instead reflected the precision of the locations retrieved. The results demonstrate the experimental separability of recollection success and precision, and highlight the importance of disentangling these two different aspects of recollection when examining episodic memory. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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