Encoding and recognition memory for naturalistic sounds.

the E label, the less likely it would be to selectively retrieve a more highly specified memory trace of the appropriate study stimulus. The important issue in recognition memory experiments is whether the test label permits retrieval of traces of a prior interpretation of the stimulus pattern as well as providing for differentiation of an old from a new set of items. For example, a test EL such as "This is a mechanical sound" is too nonspecific to be helpful when the interpretation S must achieve is "carpet sweeper" and what he must reject is "Waring Blendor." Research on this important role of label specificity on recognition memory is ye1 to