Item repetition and response deadline affect familiarity and recollection differently across childhood

Koenig, Laura; Wimmer, Marina C.; Trippas, Dries

Abstract

The aim was to examine how item repetition at encoding and response deadline at retrieval affect familiarity and recollection in 5-, 7-, or 11-year-old children (N= 156). Familiarity and recollection were estimated using a process dissociation paradigm. Direct comparison of the effects of repetition under unlimited and limited response time revealed a dissociation of familiarity and recollection. Recollection was both boosted (via repetition) and reduced (via a response time limit). Familiarity was unaffected by a response time limit. Moreover, repetition boosted familiarity only under unlimited response time. Together with several distinct age-related increases for recollection and familiarity, these results provide a challenge to single-process accounts of recognition memory.

Citation

Koenig, L., Wimmer, M. C., & Trippas, D. (2020). Item repetition and response deadline affect familiarity and recollection differently across childhood. Memory, 28(7), https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2020.1790612

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 24, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Jul 13, 2020
• Publication Date: Jul 13, 2020
• Deposit Date: Jul 2, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 14, 2021
• Print ISSN: 0965-8211
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 7
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2020.1790612
• Keywords: dual-process theory; recollection; familiarity; item repetition; memory development
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2673943