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The Demise of Short-Term Memory Revisited: Empirical and Computational Investigations of Recency Effects.
Abstract
In the single-store model of memory, the enhanced recall for the last items in a free-recall task (i.e., the recency effect) is understood to reflect a general property of memory rather than a separate short-term store. This interpretation is supported by the finding of a long-term recency effect under conditions that eliminate the contribution from the short-term store. In this article, evidence is reviewed showing that recency effects in the short and long terms have different properties, and it is suggested that 2 memory components are needed to account for the recency effects: an episodic contextual system with changing context and an activation-based short-term memory buffer that drives the encoding of item-context associations. A neurocomputational model based on these 2 components is shown to account for previously observed dissociations and to make novel predictions, which are confirmed in a set of experiments.
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- Authors
- Davelaar, E. J., Goshen-Gottstein, Y., Ashkenazi, A., Haarmann, H. J., & Usher, M.
- Venue
- Psychological Review
- Published
- 2005
- Volume
- 112
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 3-42
- ISSN
- 0033-295X (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1471
- OpenAlex
- W2155253745
- Cited by
- 417
- References
- 175
- FWCI
- 10.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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