False recognition of verbal information has long been established with word lists. Current research examines the phenomenon of false recognition with pictorial stimuli. Experiment 1 demonstrated that similar to word-lists, pictorially presented information elicits memory intrusions, and that rates of intrusions differ across stimuli sets. Experiment 2 investigated the effects of focusing on category-level versus item-specific information on the rates of false recognition. Results of Experiment 2 suggest that memory accuracy decreases dramatically when participants perform category-based processing compared to item-based processing. Experiment 3 confirmed that processing manipulations rather than other extraneous factors influence levels of false recognition in Experiment 2
