Conditions and consequences of maintenance rehearsal.
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The present experiments investigated the idea that the anticipated delay to initial recall governs whether a subject will rely on elaborative or maintenance rehearsal.In agreement with earlier research, the results suggested that maintenance rehearsal is used only when words can be rehearsed up to the moment of recall.A novel finding concerned the accessibility of the items processed in that way.When subjects were explicitly asked to recall those items first in final free recall, they were as likely to be recalled as items that had been processed elaboratively.This finding suggests that even rote rehearsal creates an accessible memory trace, albeit one that is most efficiently accessed by contextual rather than semantic cues.
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Studies suggest that power functions from classical memory experiments, although primarily obtained with non-sense verbal material on a timescale of minutes to months, are applicable to other memory domains, including visual memory.
“Although primarily obtained with non-sense verbal material on a timescale of minutes to months, studies suggest the applicability to other memory domains, including visual memory31,32.”
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- Authors
- Wixted, J. T.
- Affiliations
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Corresponding author
- Wixted, John T.
- ORCID
- Wixted, John T.
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
- Published
- 1991
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 963-973
- ISSN
- 0278-7393 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1285
- OpenAlex
- W1995847182
- Cited by
- 11
- References
- 35
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Keywords
- maintenance rehearsal, elaborative rehearsal, free recall, contextual cues, semantic cues
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Memory, Neuropsychological Tests, Mental Recall, Statistics as Topic
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