Abstract
Droodles are simple line drawings that take on distinct and humorous meanings when coupled with appropriate descriptive phrases. Two experiments examined recognition memory for one element (drawing or phrase) when only the other had been studied earlier. In this way, the interpretive link between drawing and phrase could not be made at the time of encoding. Experiment 1 showed that people could recognize phrases when only the corresponding pictures had been studied, and Experiment 2 showed that people could recognize pictures when only the corresponding phrases had been studied. Thus, cross-modal recognition is successful when testappropriate encodings could not have been prepared during study. Also, performance was unrelated to imagery ability in both experiments. Apparently, pictures and phrases are encoded and stored so as to permit quite dramatic reinterpretation and comparison during retrieval.
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