title: Encoding specificity in short-term memory for movement information: a comment on Lee and Hirota (1980).
abstract: Lee and Hirota (1980) claimed to provide evidence for the encoding specificity principle for movement information. I argue that their interpretations are confounded by methodological and theoretical factors. I further suggest that their findings are compatible with generation-recognition models of memory retrieval and thus, their study does not provide an adequate test for investigating encoding-retrieval relations. Finally, I discuss the problems and dangers of borrowing theoretical concepts from verbal domain and applying them indiscriminately to the motor domain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Crocker