title: Compound cuing in free recall.
abstract: According to the retrieved context theory of episodic memory, the cue for recall of an item is a weighted sum of recently activated cognitive states, including previously recalled and studied items as well as their associations. We show that this theory predicts there should be compound cuing in free recall. Specifically, the temporal contiguity effect should be greater when the 2 most recently recalled items were studied in contiguous list positions. A meta-analysis of published free recall experiments demonstrates evidence for compound cuing in both conditional response probabilities and interresponse times. To help rule out a rehearsal-based account of these compound cuing effects, we conducted an experiment with immediate, delayed, and continual-distractor free recall conditions. Consistent with retrieved context theory but not with a rehearsal-based account, compound cuing was present in all conditions, and was not significantly influenced by the presence of interitem distractors.
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania.
authors: Lynn J
authors: LJ
authors: Lohnas
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania.
authors: Michael J
authors: MJ
authors: Kahana
mesh_terms: D001245:Association Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D061212:Memory, Episodic; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011336:Probability; D014825:Vocabulary; D055815:Young Adult
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