Recognition failure and the composite memory trace in

The relation between recognition and recall, and especially the orderly recognition-failure Junction relating recognition and the recognizability of recallable words, was investigated using a composite holographic associative recall-recognition memory model (CHARM). Ten series of computer simulations are presented. Analysis of CHARM and comparisons to other models indicate that the recognition-failure function depends on (a) both recognition and recall being similar (convolution-correlation) processes such that an interpretable representation is retrieved in both tasks and (b) the information underlying both recall and recognition being stored in the same composite memory trace. It is of considerable interest that constructs central to the distributed nature of CHARM are responsible for the modeFs adherence to the recognition-failure function. There are few paradigms within the study of human memory in which the data are so orderly that they could be considered to be determined by a psychological law. The recognition-failure paradigm, however, provides one such instance (Gardiner