Stimulus Balance and Mechanisms of Recognition Memory : An Analysis of Memory Performance and Eyeblink Activity

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The present research was conducted to examine the relative roles of recollection or intentional and controlled rocess and familiarity or automatic process in recognition memory of affectively positive and negative stimuli. Twenty subjects performed a memory task based on Jacoby's (1991) process dissociation procedure and their eyeblink activity was assessed as a secondary measure which should reflect inner cognitive processes. Results of memory performance indicated that the role of recollection was lower in recognition of affectively positive items than in recognition of affectively negative items. On the other hand, the role of familiarity was especially high in recogni- tion of positive and high arousal items. In addition, the results of eyeblink activity suggested that the process of memory scanning should be performed longer and probably more repeatedly for the positive and high arousal items in a memory test stage.
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