Two-process models of recognition memory: Evidence for recall-to-reject?

According to two-process accounts of recognition memory, a familiarity-base d process is followed hy a slower, more accurate, recall-like process. The dominant two-process account is the recall-to-reject account, in which this second process facilitates the rejection of similar foils. To evaluate the recall-to-reject account, we reanalyzed two experiments from Hintzman and Curran (1994) in which subjects made word recognition judgments at differen t response deadlines, and we conducted two new recognition experiments usin g pairs of similar pseudowords. The new analyses included modeling at both the group and individual subject levels. The results did not provide any di stinctive evidence for recall-to-reject. In addition to discussing this two -process account, we describe a one-process account of recognition, in whic h dir nature of similarity information varies across the course of judgment . (C) Academic Press.