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Item recognition requires discrimination of studied words from nonstudied words. Associative recognition requires subjects to discriminate studied word groups from recombinations of words from different groups. Cued recognition requires the same old-new discrimination as item recognition, but list items are presented as cues along with the test item. The results from three experiments show (1) little or no effect of cuing for low-frequency words, but (2) positive cuing effects for high-frequency words; (3) increasing levels of overall performance with increases in study time, but (4) unchanging effects of cuing with study time; and (5) stronger positive cuing effects for two cues than for one cue. Five models (Independent Cue Model, Matrix model, MINERVA 2, SAM, and TODAM) were fit to the data of Experiment 1. Each model has trouble with at least one aspect of the results. Theoretical implications and modifications are discussed at length.
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This research was supported by Grant 5-538430-1990-7 from the Academic Senate of the University of California to S.E.C. Grant NIMH 12717 to R.M.S
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Clark, S.E., Shiffrin, R.M. Cuing effects and associative information in recognition memory. Memory & Cognition 20, 580–598 (1992). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03199590
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