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In two experiments on memory for pictures, a frequency-discrimination task was used to determine whether recognition decisions display slower forgetting than do discriminations among frequencies greater than 0. Experiment 1 compared frequency discriminations of 1-0 (recognition), 2-1, 4-1, and 4-2 and tested retention over an interval of 1 week. Experiment 2 added another recognition condition (2-0) and extended retention to 2 weeks. Neither experiment showed evidence for differential forgetting. The outcome is consistent with the hypothesis that the information underlying recognition memory and memory for frequency is qualitatively the same.
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant BNS-7824987.
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Hintzman, D.L., Stern, L.D. A comparison of forgetting rates in frequency discrimination and recognition. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 22, 409–412 (1984). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333860
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