The role of integration in recognition failure and action memory

• In three experiments, we studied memory for action events with respect to exceptions from the  Tulving-Wiseman function demonstrated in experiments on recognition failure ofrecallable words. In  Experiment 1, we examined exceptions of poorintegration in a regular recognition failure condition  (i.e.,recognition oftargetswithout contextual cues, followed by recall oftargetsin the presenceof con- textual cues). In Experiment 2,we examined exceptions of cue overlap in which subjects also had ac- cessto the informationof contextual cues at recognition test. InExperiment3,we attemptedto equate  the levels ofrecognition acrossthe action and verbal encoding. In addition, the cue overlap and no-cue  overlap conditions were studied in a within-subjects design. Results from the three experimentsindi- cated that encoding enactment (episodic integration) and conceptual integration (semantic integra- tion) are related to each other. As a consequence of this relationship, there is a larger independence  between recognition and recall of well-integrated items with encoding enactment. On the other hand,  for the poorly integrated items without encoding enactment, there is a larger dependence between  recognition and recall. Even in the cue overlap condition, where there is a case of large dependence  between recognition and recall, the same pattern of data was observed. The results are discussed in  terms of an episodic integration view of encoding enactment.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Psykologi -- Psykologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Psychology -- Psychology (hsv//eng)

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Integration

recognition failure

and action memory

Psykologi

Psychology

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