ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews some of the key comparisons between recall and recognition that we made in our original published report of working with one of the patients (ROB). It describes the results of some new experiments, conducted more recently, that have investigated her performance on different types of recognition memory test. The chapter enables us to make some interesting comparisons between the performance of ROB and that of another recently published case, CB, who also shows a disproportionately strong recall of impairment. It concentrates on ROB’s apparently preserved recognition memory performance. Although it would clearly be interesting to examine ROB’s use of “remember” and “know” judgements in further experiments, we believe the evidence favours the view that her recognition memory skills are essentially unimpaired. ROB made no “remember” responses whatsoever; all of her recognition decisions consisted of “know” responses. J. M. Gardiner asked subjects to provide information about the nature of their recollective experience when they were performing recognition decisions.
