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.

Task	Short definition	Processes
Autobiographical Memory Task	Participants retrieve specific personal memories in response to cue words or structured prompts; specificity,…	4
Cambridge Face Memory Task	Learn target faces across viewpoints, then identify them among distractors under increasingly difficult condit…	5
Free Recall Task	Study of a list of items followed by unaided recall in any order; serial-position curves dissociate primacy an…	6
Mnemonic Similarity Task	Incidental encoding of images followed by a test with old, new, and lure items; discrimination of lures from r…	6
Old/New Recognition Memory Task	Studied items mixed with new lures at test; hit and false-alarm rates yield d’ and can be decomposed into reco…	6
Paired Associates Learning Task	Study of cue-target pairs followed by cued recall; proportion recalled indexes associative encoding and retrie…	5
Remember/Know Task	Classify recognition hits as ‘remember’ (vivid recollection) or ‘know’ (familiarity without context); proporti…	5
Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Task	Repeated presentation of a 15-word list with immediate free recall over five trials, an interference list, and…	7
Source Memory Task	After studying items presented in distinct contexts (speaker, location, modality, time), participants judge ea…	5

Assignments marked for review

The filing of these tasks is a judgement call; the note says why they are here and where else they could go.

Task	Note
Cambridge Face Memory Task	Learn then recognize faces; could be filed under perceptual judgment as a face-processing measure