Shadows of the past: Temporal retrieval effects in recognition memory

Greg Schwartz; Marc W. Howard; Bing Jing; Michael J. Kahana

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01634.x

Shadows of the past: Temporal retrieval effects in recognition memory

Greg Schwartz, Marc W. Howard, Bing Jing, Michael J. Kahana^*

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Abstract

We examine whether temporally defined associations play a role in item recognition. The role of these associations in recall tasks is well known; we demonstrate an important role in item recognition as well. In this study, subjects were significantly more likely to recognize a test item as having been previously experienced if the preceding test item was studied in a temporally proximal list position than if the preceding test item came from a more distant list position. Further analyses showed that this associative effect was almost entirely due to cases in which the preceding test item received a highest-confidence recognition judgment.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	898-904
Number of pages	7
Journal	Psychological Science
Volume	16
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01634.x
State	Published - Nov 2005

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We acknowledge support from National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Grants MH55687 and MH61975 to the University of Pennsylvania and NIMH Grant MH61492 to Syracuse University. We wish to thank Endel Tulving, Dan Schacter, Mike Humphreys, Ken Norman, and Andy Yonelinas for helpful discussions concerning this work. We also thank Madhura Phadke and Radha Modi for assistance with data collection and Jim Steinhart for photographic materials.

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