Response to Paller et al.: the role of familiarity in making inferences about unknown quantities

Abstract

The recognition heuristic is a decision strategy that relies on explicit recognition memory. We argue that conceptual implicit memory cannot account for our findings (Rosburg et al., 2011) and is also too limited to account for the midfrontal old/new effect (FN400), which, in our view, is a multiply determined familiarity-related brain signal.