Abstract Memory researchers acknowledge the importance of semantic processing in recognition and recall, but there is a significant disconnect from the literature that addresses how to conceptualize words. We use the lexical literature to ask more analytic questions about the effects of semantic processing on memory. A prospective memory task requiring the initiation of a semantic search that was imposed during an ongoing task had an effect on the delayed recognition of words from the ongoing task, and this effect was similar whether the ongoing task was lexical decision (Experiment1) or naming (Experiment2). This finding indicates that the effect on memory of initiating a semantic search is in addition to the effect of lexical access. Further, although an associate-search prospective memory task and a multi-target prospective memory task both enhanced delayed recognition, the pattern of hits and false alarms was different. This finding indicates that prospective memory difficulty is not responsible for the enhancement on the delayed recognition test.

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语义处理如何影响识别记忆

摘要 记忆研究人员承认语义处理在识别和回忆中的重要性，但与解决如何概念化单词的文献存在重大脱节。我们使用词汇文献提出更多关于语义加工对记忆的影响的分析问题。一项需要在正在进行的任务中启动语义搜索的前瞻记忆任务对正在进行的任务中单词的延迟识别有影响，无论正在进行的任务是词汇决定（实验1）还是命名，这种影响都是相似的。实验2）。这一发现表明，启动语义搜索对记忆的影响是词汇访问的影响之外的。更多，虽然联想搜索前瞻记忆任务和多目标前瞻记忆任务都增强了延迟识别，但命中和误报的模式不同。这一发现表明，前瞻记忆困难与延迟识别测试的增强无关。