The Effects of Visual Masking on Recognition: Similarities to the Generation Effect

Previous research has shown that stimuli that are masked during encoding are remembered better than stimuli that are unmasked (Nairne, 1988). Four experiments were conducted that demonstrate several limitations to this effect. A recognition advantage for masked items over unmasked items was not foun...

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Published inJournal of memory and language Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 584 - 596
Main Authors Westerman, Deanne L., Greene, Robert L.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published San Diego, CA Elsevier Inc 01.11.1997
Elsevier
Academic Press
Elsevier BV
Subjects
Biological and medical sciences
Eyes & eyesight
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Learning. Memory
Masking
Memory
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Word Frequency
Word Recognition
Human
Recognition memory
Word
Memory
Cognition
Generation effect
Reading
Language
Coding
Vision
Information processing
Frequency
Perception
Masking
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ISSN0749-596X
1096-0821
DOI10.1006/jmla.1997.2531

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Summary:Previous research has shown that stimuli that are masked during encoding are remembered better than stimuli that are unmasked (Nairne, 1988). Four experiments were conducted that demonstrate several limitations to this effect. A recognition advantage for masked items over unmasked items was not found when the stimuli were unfamiliar low-frequency words and nonwords. A recognition advantage was also not found when the encoding task discouraged a cursory reading of the unmasked items and when masking was manipulated as a between-subjects variable. These boundary conditions resemble ones found in previous studies of the generation effect.
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ISSN:0749-596X
1096-0821
DOI:10.1006/jmla.1997.2531