Recognition memory and degree of semantic contextual change.

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Recent speculations concerning the mechanism of recognition failure underlying the context effect in recognition memory have emphasized the importance of establishing similar functional encodings of the to-be-recognized item in training and testing. The purpose of the present experiment was to examine this suggestion by manipulating the similarity of the semantic interpretation of polysemous nouns at training and testing through contextual variations. Ss were 75 undergraduates. The general trend of recognition performance was consistent with previous reports of context variation, but some of the specific comparisons appeared to raise problems for the encoding specificity explanation of recognition failure. An alternative explanation in terms of decision processes is suggested. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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