Schematic description of a candidate global model, REM (panel A) and a local model SAC (panel B) of associative recognition. Leftmost section headers delineate the memory representations of item and associative information for three classes studied word pairs (Fan 1-1, Rep ×5, and Fan 5-5) in the REM (sections A1, A2, A3) and SAC (sections B1, B2, B3) models. The results of the Monte Carlo simulation are given on the right.