Recall and recognition memory tests

A study phase is followed, after minutes or longer, by a test that asks the participant to recall, recognize or attribute studied material; hits, false alarms and their decomposition are the measures.

This family contains 9 tasks.

Autobiographical Memory

Participants retrieve specific personal memories in response to cue words or structured prompts; specificity, detail, and temporal distribution of retrieved episodes index autobiographical memory function. Engages 4 processesAutobiographical memoryRetrievalRecollectionSelf-referential processing. 5 aliasesAutobiographical Memory InterviewAMICue-Word Autobiographical Memory TaskGalton-Crovitz TaskAutobiographical Memory Test, 6 variationsCue-Word Task (Galton-Crovitz)Autobiographical Memory Test (Williams & Broadbent)Autobiographical Memory Interview (Kopelman)Sentence-Cue VariantOdor-Cued Autobiographical MemoryFuture Episodic Simulation.

Cambridge Face Memory

Learn target faces across viewpoints, then identify them among distractors under increasingly difficult conditions (novel viewpoints, visual noise); accuracy indexes face recognition ability and configural face processing. Engages 5 processesFace identity recognitionFace perceptionRecognitionEncodingVisual perception. 4 aliasesCambridge Face Memory TestCFMTCambridge Face TestCambridge Face Memory, 6 variationsCFMT-OriginalCFMT-Australian (CFMT+)CFMT-CarsCFMT-InvertedCambridge Face Perception Test (CFPT)Short-Form CFMT, also filed under 1 other familyPerceptual judgment and psychophysics tasks.

Free Recall

Study of a list of items followed by unaided recall in any order; serial-position curves dissociate primacy and recency. Engages 6 processesRecallEncodingRetrievalEpisodic memorySemantic processingRehearsal. 1 aliasRecall Task, 8 variationsImmediate Free Recall (IFR)Delayed Free Recall (DFR)Continual Distractor Free Recall (CDFR)Final Free RecallCategorized Free RecallRepeated Free RecallDirected Forgetting in Free RecallExternalized Free Recall.

Mnemonic Similarity

Incidental encoding of images followed by a test with old, new, and lure items; discrimination of lures from repetitions indexes pattern separation. Engages 6 processesPattern separationPattern completionRecognitionEncodingEpisodic memoryFamiliarity. 4 aliasesMSTMnemonic Discrimination TaskPattern Separation TaskMnemonic Similarity, 7 variationsStandard Object MSTScene MSTContinuous MSTParametric Similarity ManipulationMST for FacesSpatial MSTShort-Delay vs. Long-Delay MST.

Old/New Recognition Memory

Studied items mixed with new lures at test; hit and false-alarm rates yield d’ and can be decomposed into recollection and familiarity via ROC or remember/know. Engages 6 processesRecognitionRecollectionFamiliarityEncodingRetrievalEpisodic memory. 2 aliasesRecognition Memory TestYes/No Recognition, 7 variationsStandard Old/NewRemember-Know (R/K)Source MemoryAssociative RecognitionForced-Choice RecognitionContinuous RecognitionDRM (Deese-Roediger-McDermott) False Memory Variant.

Paired Associates Learning

Study of cue-target pairs followed by cued recall; proportion recalled indexes associative encoding and retrieval. Engages 5 processesAssociative learningEncodingRetrievalEpisodic memoryDeclarative memory. 3 aliasesPALPaired Associate LearningPaired Associates Learning, 9 variationsVerbal Paired Associates (Cued Recall)Face-Name Paired AssociatesObject-Location PairsCANTAB PALArbitrary vs. Semantically Related PairsCross-Modal Paired AssociatesMulti-Trial Learning CurvesRetroactive/Proactive Interference VariantsIncidental vs. Intentional Encoding.

Remember/Know

Classify recognition hits as ‘remember’ (vivid recollection) or ‘know’ (familiarity without context); proportions index the relative contributions of recollection and familiarity to recognition memory. Engages 5 processesRecollectionFamiliarityRecognitionEpisodic memoryMetacognitive monitoring. 2 aliasesR/K ParadigmRemember-Know, 4 variationsStandard Remember/KnowRemember/Know/Guess (RKG)Remember/Know with Source MemoryAssociative Remember/Know.

Rey Auditory Verbal Learning

Repeated presentation of a 15-word list with immediate free recall over five trials, an interference list, and delayed recall; indexes verbal learning and forgetting. Engages 7 processesEncodingRecallRetrievalVerbal memoryEpisodic memoryProactive interferenceRetroactive interference. 3 aliasesRey Auditory Verbal Learning TestRAVLTRey Verbal Learning, 5 variationsStandard RAVLT (List A × 5 + List B + Recall + Delayed Recall)Recognition TrialShortened RAVLTProactive Interference ParadigmCued Recall Addition.

Source Memory

After studying items presented in distinct contexts (speaker, location, modality, time), participants judge each item’s encoding source; source accuracy dissociates contextual recollection from item familiarity. Engages 5 processesSource memoryRetrievalRecollectionFamiliaritySelf-monitoring. 4 aliasesSource Monitoring TaskReality Monitoring TaskContext Memory TaskSource Judgment Task, 8 variationsVoice Source MonitoringSpatial Source MonitoringTemporal Source MonitoringReality MonitoringInternal Source MonitoringModality Source MonitoringEncoding Task Source MonitoringMulti-Source (3+ Sources).