Does the Experience of Remembering Differentially Influence the Factual Accuracy of Recognition, and Confidence in Its Accuracy?

ABSTRACT: Remembering is typically viewed as unreliable and prone to errors, whereas highly confident recognition memory is often believed to be highly reliable and associated with high recognition accuracy. We evaluated these beliefs using memory for photographs of natural scenes in two studies: recognition memory to examine picture similarity effects in a 2-alternative forced-choice measure, and source memory to examine picture-location associations with a continuous retrieval accuracy measure. Additionally, we assessed the experience of remembering and its influence on judgments of confidence and memory accuracy. High confidence remembering was associated with high accuracy when perceptually or mnemonically similar lures were presented in the item recognition task. However, an association between

SUBMITTER: Windsor PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12785665 | biostudies-literature | 2026

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature