Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2023 Dec;30(6):2083-2105. doi: 10.3758/s13423-023-02309-y. Epub 2023 Jul 11.
A longstanding question in memory research is whether recognition is supported by more than one mnemonic process. Dual-process models distinguish recollection of episodic detail from familiarity, while single-process models explain recognition in terms of one process that varies in strength. Dual process models have drawn support from findings that recollection and familiarity elicit distinct electroencephalographic event-related potentials (ERPs): a mid-frontal ERP effect that occurs at around 300-500 ms post-stimulus onset and is often larger for familiarity than recollection contrasts, and a parietal ERP effect that occurs at around 500-800 ms and is larger for recollection than familiarity contrasts. We sought to adjudicate between dual- and single-process models by investigating whether the dissociation between these two ERP effects is reliable over studies. We extracted effect sizes from 41 experiments that had used Remember-Know, source memory, and associative memory paradigms (1,000 participants). Meta-analysis revealed a strong interaction between ERP effect and mnemonic process of the form predicted by dual-process models. Although neither ERP effect was significantly process-selective taken alone, a moderator analysis revealed a larger mid-frontal effect for familiarity than recollection contrasts in studies using the Remember-Know paradigm. Mega-analysis of raw data from six studies further showed significant process-selectivity for both mid-frontal and parietal ERPs in the predicted time windows. On balance, the findings favor dual- over single-process theories of recognition memory, but point to a need to promote sharing of raw data.
记忆研究中长期存在的一个问题是,识别是否由多种记忆过程支持。双过程模型将情节细节的回忆与熟悉度区分开来,而单过程模型则根据一种强度变化的过程来解释识别。双过程模型得到了以下发现的支持:回忆和熟悉度会引发不同的事件相关电位 (ERP):一种中额叶 ERP 效应,大约在刺激开始后 300-500 毫秒出现,并且通常比回忆对比更熟悉,以及一种顶叶 ERP 效应,大约在 500-800 毫秒出现,并且比回忆对比更熟悉。我们通过研究这些两种 ERP 效应之间的分离在研究中是否可靠,来判断双过程和单过程模型。我们从使用记忆-知道、来源记忆和联想记忆范式的 41 个实验中提取了效应大小(1000 名参与者)。元分析揭示了这两种 ERP 效应与双过程模型所预测的记忆过程之间存在强烈的相互作用。尽管单独考虑时,这两种 ERP 效应都没有明显的过程选择性,但一个调节分析显示,在使用记忆-知道范式的研究中,熟悉度对比的中额叶效应大于回忆度对比。对六个研究的原始数据的 mega 分析进一步显示,在预测的时间窗口中,中额叶和顶叶 ERP 都具有显著的过程选择性。总的来说,这些发现支持了识别记忆的双过程理论,而不是单过程理论,但也指出需要促进原始数据的共享。