(provided by appicant): Automatic uses of memory are pervasive in daily life and provide us the foundations and the freedom for high-level cognitive activities. Accordingly, understanding the nature of these processes is vital both for the scientific understanding of memory and for applications of that knowledge. Yet, there is some debate about the relationship between two automatic uses of memory: perceptual implicit memory (PIM) and explicit familiarity. The proposed research is designed to investigate this relationship by testing two opposing hypotheses: 1) Familiarity and PIM are similar processes that share the same underlying mechanisms. 2) These are distinct forms of memory that do not share common underlying components. The proposed research strategy is to vary the conditions of both recognition and PIM tests such that both tests engage perceptual processes to the same degree. Four experiments are proposed to test these hypotheses by seeking converging evidence across different methods of measuring familiarity and PIM.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Type
Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F32)
Project #
5F32MH070191-02
Application #
7066546
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZRG1-BBBP-D (20))
Program Officer
Curvey, Mary F
Project Start
2004-09-15
Project End
2006-09-14
Budget Start
2005-09-15
Budget End
2006-09-14
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
2005
Total Cost
$43,976
Indirect Cost
Name
University of California Davis
Department
Psychology
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
047120084
City
Davis
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
95618
Parks, Colleen M (2013) Transfer-appropriate processing in recognition memory: perceptual and conceptual effects on recognition memory depend on task demands. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 39:1280-6
Parks, Colleen M; DeCarli, Charles; Jacoby, Larry L et al. (2010) Aging effects on recollection and familiarity: the role of white matter hyperintensities. Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn 17:422-38
Parks, Colleen M (2007) The Role of Noncriterial Recollection in Estimating Recollection and Familiarity. J Mem Lang 57:81-100
Yonelinas, Andrew P; Parks, Colleen M (2007) Receiver operating characteristics (ROCs) in recognition memory: a review. Psychol Bull 133:800-32
Parks, Colleen M; Yonelinas, Andrew P (2007) Moving beyond pure signal-detection models: comment on Wixted (2007). Psychol Rev 114:188-202;discussion 203-9