Mandler (1980)

Recognizing: The judgment of previous occurrence.

Psychological Review, 87(3), 252-271

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Mandler, G. (1980). Recognizing: The judgment of previous occurrence. Psychological Review, 87(3), 252-271. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295x.87.3.252

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Recognition Memory Processes

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Recognition is the judgment that something has occurred before, and it can rest on two bases: a context-free sense that the item is familiar, or retrieval of the context in which it was met, as when a man on the bus seems familiar before you place him as the butcher from the supermarket