Differential effects of cue dependency on item and source memory

The authors investigated the cue dependency of source and item memory. Indi viduals listened to words spoken by a man or a woman and later determined w hether a test word was previously presented by a man or by a woman, or whet her it was a new word Cue dependent effects were assessed by presenting tes t words with (a) the same voice (match condition) that originally presented the word, (b) a different but familiar voice (mismatch condition), (c) a n ovel test voice (novel condition), and (d) no test voice (control condition ). Compared with the control condition, source recollection was facilitated in matching-context conditions, disrupted in mismatching-context condition s, and not affected in novel test conditions. By contrast, item recognition was not affected by the match-mismatch manipulation but was significantly worse in novel test voice conditions. The authors propose an associative so urce interference view to account for the Voice match-mismatch effects obse rved in source recollection.