Temporal associative processes revealed by intrusions in paired-associate recall

Davis, Orin C.; Geller, Andrew M.; Rizzuto, Daniel S.; Kahana, Michael J.

doi:10.3758/pbr.15.1.64

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“…It would seem, therefore, that a good test of contiguity theory would be to look for evidence of organization by contiguity in paired-associate learning. Davis, Geller, Rizzuto, and Kahana (2008) reported such a result. In two experiments, when subjects recalled a list item other than the target word, there was a strong tendency for the intrusion to come from a pair that had been nearby during study.…”

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“…The experimental procedure used by Davis et al (2008), however, was highly unusual. Presentation of the words was auditory, one word at a time-12 pairs in one experiment, and 18 pairs in another.…”

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“…Given the procedure, the question is how subjects could have avoided forming such associations. Davis et al (2008) did not say why they adopted this unusual methodology. If temporal context theory is right, it should be possible to demonstrate temporally graded intrusions after subjects have studied pairs in the usual side-byside manner.…”

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“…Subjects in the Davis et al (2008) experiments studied and were tested on 11 to 16 different lists. It seems likely that at least some of them would have tried to use a seriation strategy of some kind-especially if they had prior experience in free or serial recall.…”

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Is memory organized by temporal contiguity?

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2015

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The hypotheses that memories are ordered according to time and that contiguity is central to learning have recently reemerged in the human memory literature. This article reviews some of the key empirical findings behind this revival and some of the evidence against it, and finds the evidence for temporal organization unconvincing. A central problem is that, as many memory experiments are done, they have a prospective, as well as a retrospective, component. That is, if subjects can anticipate how they will be tested, they encode the to-be-remembered material in a way that they believe will facilitate performance on the anticipated test. Experiments that avoid this confounding factor have shown little or no evidence of organization by contiguity.

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2015

Mem Cogn

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“…Similarly, Mantyla and Nilsson (1988) showed that the distinctiveness of the cues moderates the predicted effect of the encoding specificity principle, such that distinct, focused cues used at study, as opposed to spontaneously derived cues, are most effective at retrieval. Coupled with the literature that supports temporal-contextual processing as evidenced by errors in recall, such as incorrectly recalling items from previously presented lists (prior list intrusions; Davis, Geller, Rizzuto, & Kahana, 2008 ;Zaromb et al, 2006) and switching the original order when recalling in serial order (input and output transpositions; Unsworth & Engle, 2006b), this idea suggests that a memory task (e.g., a complex span task) that requires a cue-dependent search of secondary memory will also involve encoding strategies that are primarily temporal-contextual in nature.…”

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The nature of processing in working memory: Temporal-contextual cues and characteristics

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2009

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The primary-secondary memory hypothesis proposes that processing in worki ng memory requires maintaining activated representations in a capacity-limited primary memory while re-accessing representations from secondary memory that have been displaced when the limits of primary memory have been exceeded. An implication is that simple span list lengths that exceed primary memory involve the same temporal-contextual search of secondary memory that is utilized in all trials of a comp lex span task. A series of experiments tested whether a) temporal-contextual cues cou ld successfully elicit items that were studied during operation span and supra-span trials of word span as opposed to sub-span word span trials, and b) whether tern poral-contextual characteristics are more phenomenologically memorable for items studied in trials of operation span and supra-span trials of word span than for sub-span trials of word span. Tempora lcontextual cues and characteristics, however, were more accessible for operation span items than for items from simple span at any list length. Implications are discussed in li ght of this recent theory of working memory capacity as well as models of temporal distinctiveness.

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Temporal associative processes revealed by intrusions in paired-associate recall

Cited by 39 publications

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Is memory organized by temporal contiguity?

Is memory organized by temporal contiguity?

The nature of processing in working memory: Temporal-contextual cues and characteristics

What Are the Promises and Challenges of Closed-Loop Stimulation?

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