“…In recent years, however, research has suggested that familiarity can contribute to associative recognition when pairs of items are unitized (i.e., treated as a single unit rather than as a pairing of two separate items). This notion is supported by a growing body of evidence (for review, see Mecklinger & Jäger, 2009;Yonelinas, Aly, Wang, & Koen, 2010), including behavioral studies (e.g., Ahmad & Hockley, 2017;Diana, Yonelinas, & Ranganath, 2008;Parks & Yonelinas, 2015;Robey & Riggins, 2017;Shao, Opitz, Yang, & Weng, 2015;Tibon, Greve, & Henson, 2018;Tibon, Vakil, Goldstein, & Levy, 2012;Tu, Alty, & Diana, 2017) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies (Bader, Opitz, Reith, & Mecklinger, 2014;Diana et al, 2009;Ford, Verfaellie, & Giovanello, 2013;Haskins, Yonelinas, Quamme, & Ranganath, 2008;Memel & Ryan, 2017), as well as electrophysiological studies showing modulation of the mid-frontal ERP effect associated with familiarity, following unitization encoding (e.g., Bader, Mecklinger, Hoppstädter, & Meyer, 2010;Diana, Van den Boom, Yonelinas, & Ranganath, 2011;Guillaume & Etienne, 2015;Jäger, Mecklinger, & Kipp, 2006;Jäger, Mecklinger & Kliegel, 2010;Kamp, Bader, & Mecklinger, 2016;Rhodes & Donaldson, 2008;Tibon, Ben-Zvi, & Levy, 2014;Tibon, Gronau, Scheuplein, Mecklinger, & Levy, 2014;Zheng, Li, Xiao, Broster, & Jiang, 2015).…”