PubMed · 15336242
Implicit contributions of context to recognition.
Abstract
Studies of the impact of context on remembering have not focused on the influence of contextual contingency on subsequent recognition in the condition in which the contingency cannot be verbalized. In two experiments, we analyzed the effect of an implicitly encoded position contingency involving location and semantic category on both hit and false alarm recognition judgments after 1 day and 1 week delays. We vigorously probed for what participants could say about the contingency. We found context effects for both hits and false alarms, whether or not participants could verbalize any knowledge they might have of contingency. These results suggest that people may use contextual information when making a recognition judgment even if they are not aware of this information.
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David Manier, Ioana Apetroaia, Zissis Pappas, William Hirst. 2004. Implicit contributions of context to recognition.. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2004.06.006
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