{"id":8919,"date":"2019-05-22T16:12:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/recognition_memory\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:12:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:56","slug":"recognition_memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/recognition_memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Recognition memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memory that occurs when a previously perceived stimulus is re-presented and registered as familiar. &nbsp;For example, a subject may recognise a voice, face, or visual pattern as being familiar, based on past exposure to it, even though there was no recollection of the stimulus before it was re-presented. &nbsp;People have excellent recognition memory for faces as they can recognize a person&#8217;s face as familiar after lengthy delays. &nbsp;Considered to require less cognitive effort than recall memory.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"double_dissociation\">Double dissociation<\/a>, <a href=\"memory\">Memory<\/a>, <a href=\"perceptual_memory\">Perceptual memory<\/a>, <a href=\"recall_memory\">Recall memory<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memory that occurs when a previously perceived stimulus is re-presented and registered as familiar. &nbsp;For example, a subject may recognise a voice, face, or visual pattern as being familiar, based on past exposure to it, even though there was no recollection of the stimulus before it was re-presented. &nbsp;People have excellent recognition memory for faces &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/recognition_memory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Recognition memory&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}