The present article is the last in a series of three that use both response time and accuracy to explore the processes of recognition and cued recall, and the relation between these. The results from Nobel and Shiffrin (submitted, a, b) showed that the free response time distributions for recognition had much lower mean and variance than those for cued recall. The signal-to-respond curves showed similar results: fast rates of accumulation of information in recognition, and slow rates in recall. These results suggest different retrieval mechanisms. Studies in this article contrast various recall and recognition tasks using a signal-to-respond procedure, to rule out the possibility of a fast retrieval process followed by a slow process of 'cleaning up' the retrieved trace in recall. In particular, associative recognition showed similar growth rates to those seen in recall, even though the need of a post-retrieval clean-up process is eliminated. The associative recognition data were well fit with an extension of the SAM model for cued recall (Raaijmakers & Shiffrin, 1980, 1981), that uses sequential sampling and matching.