Studies of schizophrenia suggest a specific impairment in binding different parts of a memory event into a cohesive whole, a finding that may account for the reported preferential deficits in associative recognition memory relative to item recognition.
Agreement was slightly higher for discontinuation items relative to continuation items and higher for items covering issues other than efficacy and safety, such as cost, insurance, and social support.
In summary, overall memory was enhanced for congruent items relative to incongruent items, although other, semantically-mediated associations, do contribute to the congruency effect.
The trend level enhancement for suppressed items relative to baseline items independently confirms the subjectively very high difficulty participants reported for the recall suppression task, confirming that the mnemonic control evident in reduced parietal amplitude was the product of effortful control.
Participants of both groups judged more previously seen items as familiar relative to unseen items, but Tyr carriers made significantly more false alarms during delayed recognition [T39 = −2.564; p = .015, two-tailed] (Figure 3A).
For example, at least one item was needlessly long, complex, and had very low item variance explained (0.094) relative to other items in the construct (i.e., "If human beings are solely the product of chance, meaningless forces, then one can rightly question the value of man, the significance of life, and whether there is any basis for morality".
Similarity and relatedness exert robust effects on memory, with related or semantically similar items showing a recall and recognition advantage relative to unrelated items (e.g., Cofer, Bruce, & Reicher, 1966; Kintsch, 1968; Roediger & McDermott, 1995).
A further 49 items were eliminated from the item set because they contained redundant content and performed poorly relative to other items with similar content that were retained.
