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Preferred term

recollection  

Definition

  • A phenomenological characteristic of memory experiences in a recognition test, in which an item is judged as “old” (previously studied) because specific elements of the encoding context are retrieved.

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Synonym(s)

  • recollective experience

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Yonelinas, A. P. (2002). The nature of recollection and familiarity : A review of 30 years of research. Journal of Memory and Language, 46(3), 441‑517. https://doi.org/10.1006/jmla.2002.2864

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

In other languages

  • French

  • expérience recollective
  • récollection
  • remémoration
  • reviviscence

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-XBK7Q5XL-7

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