The role of episodic memory in controlled evaluative judgments about attitudes: An event-related potential study

▸ Attitude evaluations and autobiographical retrievals elicit a parietal EM effect. ▸ Semantic evaluations of attitude items elicit a different pattern of ERP activity. ▸ Hence, representations used in attitude evaluations are stored in episodic memory. ▸ Retrieval timing is different in evaluation and memory tasks. ▸ Unlike memory tasks, evaluations show early retrieval and post-retrieval processing.