Memory for faces: Encoding and retrieval operations

Memory for faces: encoding and retrieval operations.

The reliable finding that trait judgments of faces yield better recognition memory than do feature judgments of faces is conceptualized as an encoding-specificity effect. Specifically, both trait-judgment encodings of faces and face-recognition tests are argued to be holistic, involving topographical information with between-feature processing. Consistent with the concept that encoding and retr...

The two faces of memory retrieval.

Memory for faces: evidence of retrieval-based impairment.

Four experiments investigated whether and how interpolated faces cause impairment to memories for related target faces. Participants viewed target faces and then saw a presentation of interpolated faces that were related to some of the targets. Modified tests, which offered target and novel faces as recognition alternatives, detected impairment effects after short retention intervals but not af...

Running Title: ENCODING-RETRIEVAL SIMILARITY AND MEMORY Neural similarity between encoding and retrieval is related to memory via hippocampal interactions

A fundamental principle in memory research is that memory is a function of the similarity between encoding and retrieval operations. Consistent with this principle, many neurobiological models of declarative memory assume that memory traces are stored in cortical regions and the hippocampus facilitates reactivation of these traces during retrieval. The present investigation tested the novel pre...

Retrieval during learning facilitates subsequent memory encoding.

In multiple-list learning, retrieval during learning has been suggested to improve recall of the single lists by enhancing list discrimination and, at test, reducing interference. Using electrophysiological, oscillatory measures of brain activity, we examined to what extent retrieval during learning facilitates list encoding. Subjects studied 5 lists of items in anticipation of a final cumulati...