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Laurence Taconnat
The generation effect indicates that self-generated stimuli are recalled and recognized better than read stimuli. A positive generation effect is generally observed on generated items, but a negative generation effect can also occur, resulting in a reduction in the recall of information related to the context of encoding. These effects are proposed to be mainly due to the reinforcement of the semantic processing implemented at the moment of the production as well as increased of mobilization of the attentional resources. The negative generation effect often observed on memory source supports an item-source tradeoff hypothesis in which the encoding of an item and source information are dissociable from one another. However, the generation of information is likely to increase awareness in the recognition memory. Thus, the study of the cognitive mechanisms that underlie the generation effect could corroborate the dissociation already observed in episodic memory, but also dissociation between implicit and explicit memory.
