On the nature of the Tulving-Wiseman function.

The reality of the Tulving-Wiseman function (Tulving & Wiseman, 1975) that describes the outcomes of a large number of recognition-failure experiments has been called into question by Hintzman (1992), who has argued on formal grounds that the function emerges because of mathematical constraints on the maximum possible values of recognition conditionalized on recall. In this article Hintzman's claim is shown to be contrary to empirical facts