The visual paired-comparison task as a measure of declarative memory

Performance on the visual paired-comparison task depends on the integrity o f the hippocampal formation in humans, monkeys, and. for an analogous task, in rats. The present study sought additional evidence in healthy volunteer s concerning the nature of this task. We found that performance on the visu al paired-comparison task was predictive of subsequent recognition memory p erformance whereas perceptual priming was unrelated to subsequent recogniti on memory performance. The results are consistent with the data from lesion s and suggest that performance on the visual paired-comparison task measure s a form of declarative memory.