Recognition: Memory for words correctly heard in noise

Implicit memory for words heard during sleep

When we fall asleep, our awareness of the surrounding world fades. Yet, the sleeping brain is far from being dormant and recent research unraveled the preservation of complex sensory processing during sleep. In wakefulness, such processes usually lead to the formation of long-term memory traces, being it implicit or explicit. We examined here the consequences upon awakening of the processing of...

Brain mechanisms underlying reality monitoring for heard and imagined words.

Using functional MRI, we investigated reality monitoring for auditory information. During scanning, healthy young adults heard words in another person's voice and imagined hearing other words in that same voice. Later, outside the scanner, participants judged words as "heard," "imagined," or "new." An area of left middle frontal gyrus (Brodmann's area, or BA, 6) was more active at encoding for ...

Aging and recognition memory for emotional words: a bias account.

The present study investigated age-related differences in the locus of the emotional enhancement effect in recognition memory. Younger and older adults studied an emotion-heterogeneous list followed by a forced choice recognition memory test. Luce's (1963) similarity choice model was used to assess whether emotional valence impacts memory sensitivity or response bias. Results revealed that the ...

Recognition Memory for Emotional Words: An Event Related Potential Study

v Introduction 1 Emotion and Memory 2 ERPs and Emotion 6 ERPs Associated with Episodic Memory 7 Old/New Effects 7 ERPs, Emotion, and Recognition Memory 15 Purpose 20 Hypotheses and Predictions 22 Behavioral 22 Hypothesis 1 22 Hypothesis 2 22 Hypothesis 3 22 ERP 23 Hypothesis 4 23 Hypothesis 5 23 Method 24 Participants 24 Apparatus 24 Materials 25 Design and Procedure 26 Results 31 Data Diagnost...

Spoken word recognition of novel words, either produced or only heard during learning