Asking people to discover the identity of a recognition test probe immediately before making
a recognition judgment increases the probability of an old judgment. To inform theories of
this “revelation effect,” event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded for revealed and intact
test items across two experiments. In Experiment 1, we used a revelation effect paradigm
where half of the test probes were presented as anagrams (ie, a related task) and the other
items were presented intact. The pattern of ERP results from this experiment suggested that …