Rethinking familiarity: Remember/Know judgments in free recall

摘要: Although frequently used with recognition, a few studies have the Remember/Know procedure free recall. In each case, participants gave Know judgments to significant number of recalled items (items that were presumably not remembered on basis familiarity). What do these mean? We investigated this issue using source memory/free-recall procedure. For word was recalled, asked (a) make confidence rating 5-point scale, (b) judgment, and (c) recollect detail. The large majority both Remember made high accuracy, but memory nevertheless higher for than judgments. These results correspond what is found they raise possibility in recall identify cue-dependent retrieval item-only information from an episodic search set. agreement idea, we also temporal dynamics similar high-confidence (as if reflected same set). If fact reflect information, it seems reasonable suppose might be true recognition. so, then longstanding debate about role hippocampus recollection familiarity may natural resolution.