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Effect of Target Detection on Familiarity and Recollection of Memory Retrieval

DONG Yueqing1,2, XIAO Fenni3   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot 010022;
    2. The Key Laboratory of Psychology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot 010022;
    3. School of Psychology, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350108
  • Published:2025-09-15

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Abstract: The Attentional Boost Effect (ABE) study found that the stimuli that co-occur with targets are remembered better than those that co-occur with distractors in target detection tasks performed when a target detection task is performed during memory encoding. This phenomenon is different from previous views of limited attention resources, and has attracted the attention of researchers. Subsequently, researchers applied the target detection task to the memory retrieval stage and found that the stimuli that co-occur with targets are recognised as 'old words’ more easily than the stimuli that co-occur with distractors. Therefore, it is still unclear whether the impact of target detection on memory retrieval is consistent with the ABE. This study added “remember/know/guess” judgments after the end of memory retrieval to explore the effect of target detection on familiarity and recollection of memory retrieval, and its underlying mechanism. The results showed that for the male population, the effect of target detection on memory retrieval was not only manifested in familiarity, but also in recollection; while for the female population, the impact of target detection on memory retrieval is only manifested in familiarity. The influence of target detection on memory retrieval is different from ABE in the encoding stage.

Key words: target detection, memory retrieval, familiarity, recollection

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